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| School: | School of Social Sciences and Humanities |
| Unit Description: | This unit offers an introduction to the sociology of health, medicine and the body. The broad perspective of the unit emphasises the social construction of knowledge about health, illness and healing, the significance of power relations, and the relationship between power and knowledge. Topics: illness experience and embodiment, inequalities in health, sociocultural constructions of the 'normal', 'healthy' body, sociological critiques of medical knowledge, especially post-structuralist and feminist critiques, the new genetics, health promotion and the new public health. |
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| Contact Time: | Lectures/tutorials: up to 3 hours per week. |
| Notes: | Postgraduate students should enrol in the higher-level code for this unit. |
| Fees: | Details |
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This information has been extracted dynamically from the 2008 Murdoch University Handbook |
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