Nursing

Sociology of Health2

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:
  1. INTRODUCTION
    Sociology and social reality.
  2. HEALTH, ILLNESS, BODY AND SOCIETY
    Health and illness: social representations.
    Medication, contexts and social practices.
    Body, body cultures and social regulation.
  3. HEALTH CONTEXTS, ACTORS AND SOCIAL PROCESSES
    Therapeutic relation: courses and power resources.
  4. 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.