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LECTURES WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE IV PERIOD

Some of the key questions considered in this course are:

• What do we mean by suffering and how concepts of ill/health vary in different societies?
• How can we look at the body as a bio-historical product?
• In what sense personal experience of distress can be viewed as the embodiment of broader social processes?
• How such a distress is interpreted and dealt with in institutional (medical) settings?
• What are the cultural dimensions inscribed in our medical categories?
• What can anthropological analysis teach us about the determinants and personal significance of health and illness?
• What are the the scientific and political consequences of such analyses?
• How can we use such analyses in rethinking suffering, health and their care?

First week lectures will deal with the cultural construction of illness experience.

Second week will be centred on the social production of medical categories and illness experience.

Third week will focus on the concept of embodiment and its theoretical outcomes.

Forth week will discuss the concept of social suffering

Final week will address the anthropological contribution to global health.