Sociology of Health
Sociologia da Saúde
Course code:9500206
Noémia da Glória Mendes Lopes
Learning outcomes of the curricular unit:
Our goal is for students to acquire sociological knowledge about the social and cultural factors that structure the practices, representations and interactions in the health field. We aim that students reflexively incorporate the sociological problems in the field of nursing intervention.
Skills to be developed:
- Be able to identify health and illness as social phenomena.
- Be able to analyse the social processes that structure the therapeutic relation.
- Be able to analyse body cultures and their connection to health and illness behaviours.
- Be able to identify the medicalization and pharmaceuticalization phenomena and its effects in the changes regarding health and illness behaviours.
- Be able to discuss the sociological dimensions in the changes regarding death.
- Be able to promote conditions of social efficiency in technical and relational nursing services.
Syllabus:
- INTRODUCTION
Sociology and social reality. - HEALTH, ILLNESS, BODY AND SOCIETY
Health and illness: social representations.
Medication, contexts and social practices.
Body, body cultures and social regulation. - HEALTH CONTEXTS, ACTORS AND SOCIAL PROCESSES
Therapeutic relation: courses and power resources. - DEATH, SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS AND SOCIAL PRACTICES
Death as a social process.
Suggested Bibliography:
- Giddens A (2013) Sociologia, Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.
- Gabe J, Bury M, Elston A (2005) Key concepts in medical sociology, London, Sage.
- Le Breton D (2010) Sociologia do Corpo, S. Paulo, Vozes.
- Lopes N (org.) (2010) Medicamentos e Pluralismo Terapêutico: práticas e lógicas sociais em mudança, Porto, Afrontamento.
- Tavares D (2016) Introdução à Sociologia da Saúde, Coimbra, Almedina.