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Lesson Information

Course Credit
Course ECTS Credit
Teaching Language of Instruction Türkçe
Level of Course Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
Type of Course
Mode of Delivery Face-to-face
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience?
Course Coordinator Assist. Prof. Dr. MUSTAFA POYRAZ KOLLUOĞLU
Instructor (s)
Course Assistant

Purpose and Content

The aim of the course The main purpose of this course is to show the ways in which "sociological imagination" and critical thinking could be deployed in regards to health services and professional life for students of health faculty.
Course Content By drawing inspiriation from famous thinker Michel Foucault's concept of "biopolitics", the course content includes covers a wide range of themes ranging from patient-doctor roles, the sociological and gender origins of health, medicalization of everyday life, anthropology of health and contemporary health policies.

Weekly Course Subjects

1Introduction
2What is Sociology and What it Examines?
3The Origins of Modern Societies and Sociological Theories
4The Birth of Clinic, Biopolitics and Eugenics
5The social origins of sickness, Body and Health I
6The social origins of sickness, Body and Health II
7The Gender origins of Nursing
8The Medicalization of Everyday Life
9Midterms
10Health in Ancient Times and Alternative Medical
11Alternative and Traditional Medical Methods
12Neoliberalizm and Health
13Patient Narratives in Neoliberal Era
14Final Assessment

Resources

Anthony Giddens, Sosyoloji, İstanbul: Kırımızı Yayınları, 2008.

Cenk Özbay, Ayşecan Terzioğlu, Yeşim Yasim (Ed.), Neoliberalizm ve Mahremiyet: Türkiye’de Beden, Sağlık ve Cinsellik,, İstanbul: Metis, 2011

Deniz Sezgin, Tıbbileştirilen Yaşam Bireyselleştirilen Sağlık, Ayrıntı Yayınları, 2011