Course content - Learning outcome - Admission - Prerequisites - Teaching - Examination - Evaluation

Course content

This course introduces anthropological perspectives on health, illness and medicine, and explores the interactions between biology, society and culture. It aims to present a contextual and comparative approach in which cultural and social dimensions of health-related issues are emphasized, and placed within broader political and historical processes. Through extensive use of examples mainly from Africa, Asia and Norway, four themes will be made central: cultural and social constructions of disease, notions of the body, medical pluralism and the significance of power in the global distribution of health and illness. The course it taught over five days, through lectures and extensive use of seminars.

Learning outcome

The course gives a basic understanding of ways to include social and cultural aspects in analysis of health, illness and medicine. Moreover, the students will be encouraged to explore the potential of socio-cultural perspectives on their own projects.

Admission

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Ph.D. candidates at the University of Oslo and students at the Medical Student Research Programme will get first priority to the course. External applicants will be admitted if there are any available places.

Maximum number of participants is 15.

Applicants will be notified by e-mail 1-2 weeks after the final date for registration, if they have been granted admission.

Please note that it is not possible to apply for this course spring 2013, since the course is cancelled.

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Prerequisites

Formal prerequisite knowledge

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Teaching

MF9280 IS CANCELLED SPRING 2013.

NB! You have to participate in at least 80 % of the teaching to be allowed to take the exam. Attendance at lectures will be registered.

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Examination

A take-home exam will be given at the end of the course. The participants will be asked to write an academic paper of 10-20 pages. Grading: pass/fail.

Examination support material

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Grading scale

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Explanations and appeals

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Students can request an explanation of their grades, and can also appeal against their grades or make a complaint about formal examination errors. Read more about explanations and appeals

Resit an examination

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Withdrawal from an examination

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Special examination arrangements

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Evaluation

Feedback from our students is essential to us in our efforts to ensure and further improve the high quality of our programmes and courses. All courses are subject to continuous evaluation. At regular intervals we also ask students on a particular course to participate in a more comprehensive, periodic evaluation of this course.