Globalisation and Health(SOC489)
| Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theory | Practice | Lab | Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOC489 | Globalisation and Health | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Prerequisites | |
| Admission Requirements |
| Language of Instruction | English |
| Course Type | Elective |
| Course Level | Bachelor Degree |
| Course Instructor(s) | Ayşecan TERZİOĞLU ayterzioglu@ku.edu.tr (Email) |
| Assistant | |
| Objective | The course aims to indicate how the health policies are shaped and negotiated at a global, national and local levels, with a particular concentration of such topics as organ transplantation, pharmaceutical industry and social suffering. It analyzes various medical and cultural conceptions of body, health, illness, life and death and how the social and cultural inequalities interact with the inequalities in the health sector. |
| Content | The course discusses how the health policies of the World Health organization have undergone a radical change since the 1980s and how these changes are criticized. It also covers the formation of alternative global health organizations such as Medecin Sans Frontieres. It studies global health inequalities, with a focus on contested borders. The theoretical discussion of biosocial subject, biological citizenship, gender issues and global health are also covered in the class. |
| Course Learning Outcomes | Students gain the ability to study and discuss various health issues from a global, social science perspective. They learn the similarities and differences in the medical discourses and practices of various countries, and how the social sciences adress those topics. |
| Teaching and Learning Methods | Lecture, in-class discussions, movie screening |
| References |
-“Assessment of the World Health Report 2000”, Vicente Navarro, Neoliberalism, Globalization and Inequalities: Consequences for Health and Quality of Life, Vicente Navarro (ed), 2007, Baywood Publishing. -“Serious Crisis in the Practice of International Health by the World Health Organization: The Comission on Social Determinants of Health”, Debabar Banerji, Neoliberalism, Globalization and Inequalities: Consequences for Health and Quality of Life, Vicente Navarro (ed), 2007, Baywood Publishing. - “Is Medicine International?” Lynn Payer, Medicine and Culture: Varieties of Treatment in the United States, England, West Germany and France, 1996, Owl Books. -“Addiction Markets: The Case of High Dose Buprenorphine in France”, Anne M.Lovell, Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices, Adriana Petryna, Andrew Lakoff and Arthur Kleinman (eds), 2006, Duke University Press. -“Introduction: A Guinea Pig’s Wage”, Roberto Abadie, The Professional Guinea Pig: Big Pharma and the Risky World of Human Subjects, 2010, Duke University Press. -“Treating AIDS: Dilemmas of Unequal Access in Uganda”, Susan Rynolds Whyte et al., Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices, Adriana Petryna, Andrew Lakoff and Arthur Kleinman (eds), 2006, Duke University Press. - “To Live with what would otherwise be Unendurable II, Caught in the Borderlands of Palestine? Israel”, Michael M.J. Fischer, Postcolonial Disorders, MaryJo Good et al, (Eds.) , 2008, University of California Press. - “The Production of Possession: Spirits and the Multinational Corporation in Malaysia”, Aihwa Ong, Beyond the Body Proper: Reading the Anthropology of Material Life, Margaret Lock and Judith Farquhar (eds), 2007, Duke University Press. “Technology as Other: Japanese Modernity and Technology”, Margaret Lock, Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death, 2002, University of California Press. “The Impossible ”, Aslıhan Sanal, New Organs within Us: Transplants and the Moral Economy, 2011, Duke University Press. “Introduction: Bioethics Rebound” , Sherine Hamdy, Our Bodies Belong to God: Organ Transplants, Islam and the Struggle for Human Dignity in Egypt, 2012, University of California Press. Week 8: Globalization and Biological Citizenship: - “Science and Citizenship under Postsocialism”, Adriana Petryna, Anthropologies of Modernity, 2005, Jonathan X. Inda (ed), Blackwell Publishing. - “Biological Citizens”, Nikolas Rose, The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century, 2007, Princeton University Press - “The Body in Medicine”, Deborah Lupton, Medicine and Culture: Illness, Disease and the Body in Western Societies, 2006, Sage Publications. - “Feminisms and Medicine”, Deborah Lupton, Medicine and Culture: Illness, Disease and the Body in Western Societies, 2006, Sage Publications. - “Tales of the Second Spring: Menopause in Turkey through the Narratives of Menopausal Women and Gynecologists”, Maral Erol, Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies on Health and Illness, Vol. 28, Issue 4, 2009. - “Breast Cancer Risk as Disease: Biomedicalizing Risk”, Jennifer Ruth Fosket, Adele E. Clarke et al., Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health and Illness in the U.S., Adele E. Clarke et al., 2010, Duke University Press. |
Theory Topics
| Week | Weekly Contents |
|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction |
| 2 | WHO and its critique |
| 3 | Global and Local Medical Practices |
| 4 | Global and Local Medical Practices |
| 5 | Borders and Inequalities in Health |
| 6 | Borders and Inequalities in Health |
| 7 | Midterm |
| 8 | Organ Transplantation throughout the World |
| 9 | Organ Transplantation throughout the World |
| 10 | Globalization and Biological Citizenship |
| 11 | Globalization and Biological Citizenship |
| 12 | Phamaceutical Industry and its Critique |
| 13 | Gender, Body and Health Worldwide |
| 14 | Gender, Body and Health Worldwide |
Practice Topics
| Week | Weekly Contents |
|---|
Contribution to Overall Grade
| Number | Contribution | |
|---|---|---|
| Contribution of in-term studies to overall grade | 0 | 50 |
| Contribution of final exam to overall grade | 0 | 50 |
| Toplam | 0 | 100 |
In-Term Studies
| Number | Contribution | |
|---|---|---|
| Assignments | 0 | 0 |
| Presentation | 0 | 0 |
| Midterm Examinations (including preparation) | 1 | 40 |
| Project | 0 | 0 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Other Applications | 0 | 0 |
| Quiz | 0 | 0 |
| Term Paper/ Project | 0 | 0 |
| Portfolio Study | 0 | 0 |
| Reports | 0 | 0 |
| Learning Diary | 0 | 0 |
| Thesis/ Project | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 0 | 0 |
| Other | 1 | 10 |
| Toplam | 2 | 50 |
| No | Program Learning Outcomes | Contribution | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | The student will be able to recognize and assess the essential theoretical perspectives both in sociology and its related domains. | X | ||||
| 2 | The student will be able to make use of the major theoretical analyses and sociological concepts in his/her own research topics. | X | ||||
| 3 | The student will be able to articulate sociological perspective and reasoning with social and historical facts, and to interpret social and historical issues with a sociological eye. | X | ||||
| 4 | The student will be able to assess the current state of research and knowledge on the classical and contemporary domains of sociological inquiry as well as its relevant fields. | X | ||||
| 5 | The student will be able to design and conduct a sociological research with appropriate theoretical construction and empirical methods. | X | ||||
| 6 | The student will be able to produce a written research report that relates research questions to empirical findings. | X | ||||
| 7 | The student will be able to appropriately use both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. | X | ||||
| 8 | The student will be able to make appropriate use of statistical software programs for data processing and analysis. | X | ||||
| 9 | The student will be able to make appropriate use of statistical software programs for data processing and analysis. | X | ||||
| 10 | Graduates will be able to follow the scientific production both in English and French as well as Turkish. | X | ||||
| 11 | Graduates will be able to develop a comparative and interdisciplinary approach which will integrate sociology within a broader social science perspective. | X | ||||
| 12 | Graduates will be able to interpret the history and modernization of Turkey through its sociological consequences. | X | ||||
| 13 | The student will be able to intervene to social and political processes in order to propose possible solutions to the problems caused by social inequalities and discriminations. | X | ||||
| 14 | The student will be able to develop a reflexive point of view on his/her position as a a sociologist as well as a researcher. | X | ||||
| Activities | Number | Period | Total Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working Hours out of Class | 12 | 7 | 84 |
| Midterm Examinations (including preparation) | 1 | 15 | 15 |
| Final Examinations (including preparation) | 1 | 15 | 15 |
| Total Workload | 114 | ||
| Total Workload / 25 | 4.56 | ||
| Credits ECTS | 5 | ||