Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
Sociology of Medicine
Course Code
HZK_052
Branch of Science
Applied Sociology; Sociology and social work
ECTS
3.00
Target Audience
Medicine
LQF
Level 7
Study Type And Form
Full-Time
Study Course Implementer
Course Supervisor
Vents Sīlis
Structure Unit Manager
Ieva Puzo
Structural Unit
Faculty of Social Sciences
Contacts
Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf@rsu.lv
About Study Course
Objective
To develop understanding on the social context of individual and collective action in healthcare and medicine.
Preliminary Knowledge
Not necessary.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.At the end of the course students are able to define concepts of health and disease from the sociological perspective, understand the use of sociological concepts describing processes in the area of health and medicine. Students are able to describe contemporary challenges of medicine, as well as understand the classical and contemporary sociological approaches to medicine.
Skills
1.Students are able to explain the social causes of health and disease and factors that have impact on health behaviour at micro and macro level. Students can identify the major sociological theories that explain health behaviour, evaluate advantages of different methods of sociological research of health-care and medicine, describe issues concerning disease experience and stigmatisation, analyse sociological aspects of the doctor-patient relationship, explain life quality factors affecting health lifestyle, evaluate different models of the health-care system.
Competences
1.Able to understand, interpret and analytically evaluate social factors, which determine individual and collective behaviour in healthcare and medicine. Students have improved their communicative (group work, discussions) and cognitive (independent work, examination) competence.
Assessment
Individual work
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1. Analysis of primary and/or secondary texts on seminar topics in accordance with the list of topics. Before each seminar students independently read the seminar text or texts and prepare answers to questions from the seminar question list.
2. Students independently prepare a "problem-based learning" work according to the methodological guidelines provided by the head of the course.
3. At the end of the course students fill out course evaluation survey on e-studies.
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Examination
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1. During the seminars students are evaluated according to the quality of performance in discussions and co-responsibility for group work (each seminar will be evaluated with pass/fail).
2. In the independent "problem-based learning" work students are evaluated according to their ability to organise a research work, to analyse the case, to develop realistic solutions.
3. In the written exam students are evaluated according to their knowledge about the topics covered in the course.
The cumulative evaluation of the course consists of: (1) passed seminars, (2) the score of independent "problem-based learning" work constituting 50% of the final grade, and (3) the score of the exam constituting 50% of the final grade.
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Study Course Theme Plan
FULL-TIME
Part 1
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Lecture
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2
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Introductory lecture: Characteristics of sociological science and medical sociology. Sociological research methods
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A brief history and major theoretical perspectives of medical sociology
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Interpretations of the concept of health and disease
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Concept of culture in sociology. Socialisation and internalisation theories, deviance and social control. Stigmatisation
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Concept of social stratification and mobility. Social inequality and exclusion
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Social changes and contemporary challenges in medicine
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Interpretation of mental diseases in sociology
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Understanding of the body in sociology. Experience of disease and pain
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Sociological interpretation of lifestyles, social determinants of health behaviour
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Manifestations of social inequality in medicine. Analysis of social factors
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Health and illness in different stages of the life cycle
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Social aspects of alternative medicine
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Health care systems. Accessibility of healthcare
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Patient-physician relationship. Deprofessionalization. Patient in the 21st century
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Problem based learning II
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
3.00
Contact hours:
32 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam (Written)
Bibliography
Required Reading
1.
Bite, D. (zin. red.). 2022. Medicīnas socioloģija. Rīga: RSU (izdošanas procesā) (latviešu plūsmas studentiem)
2.
Collyer, Fran (ed.). 2015. The Palgrave Handbook of Social Theory in Health, Illness and Medicine. Palgrave Macmillan. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
3.
Ivanovs, Andrejs. 2016. Riska faktoru analīze saslimšanai ar tuberkulozi Latvijā. Promocijas darbs, Rīga: RSU (latviešu plūsmas studentiem)
4.
Mežinska, Signe. 2011. Hroniskas slimības subjektīvā pieredze un pensijas vecuma cilvēku dzīves kvalitāte. Promocijas darbs, Rīga: RSU (latviešu plūsmas studentiem) (akceptējams izdevums)
5.
Salmane - Kuļikovska, Ieva. 2014. Bezrecepšu medikamentu, vitamīnu un uztura bagātinātāju lietošana Latvijā. Promocijas darbs, Rīga: RSU (latviešu plūsmas studentiem)
6.
Sīlis, Vents. 2018. “veselības un medicīnas socioloģija.” no Nacionālā enciklopēdija (latviešu plūsmas studentiem)
7.
Sīlis, Vents. 2010. Latvijas iedzīvotāju veselības uzvedība un dzīves kvalitāte. Promocijas darbs, Rīga: RSU (latviešu plūsmas studentiem) (akceptējams izdevums)
8.
Vībane, Kristīne. 2019. Insultu pārcietušo cilvēku un viņu tuvinieku insultpratība. Promocijas darbs, Rīga: LU Sociālo zinātņu fakultāte (latviešu plūsmas studentiem)
9.
Vībane, Kristīne. 2018. “klīniskā socioloģija.” no Nacionālā enciklopēdija (latviešu plūsmas studentiem)
10.
Weiss, Gregory L., and Lynne E. Lonnquist. 2017. The Sociology of Health, Healing, and Illness. 9th edition. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
Additional Reading
1.
Association, Press. 2016. “‘Postcode Lottery’ Revealed in NHS Care.” The Guardian, September 8, 2016, sec. Society.
2.
Clarke, Alan. 2010. The Sociology of Healthcare: 2nd Edition. London: Pearson. Kopkatalogā (klasiska mācību grāmata medicīnas socioloģijā)
3.
Cockerham, William C. 2013. “Sociological Theory in Medical Sociology in the Early Twenty-First Century.” Social Theory & Health 11 (3): 241–55. Health Research Premium Collection
4.
Ettorre, Elizabeth. 2010. Culture, Bodies and the Sociology of Health. Farnham : Routledge. eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) (klasiska mācību grāmata medicīnas socioloģijā)
5.
Kitto, Simon. 2011. Sociology of Interprofessional Health Care Practice: Critical Reflections and Concrete Solutions. New York : Nova Science Publishers. eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost)
6.
Neiders, Ivars. 2015. “Budžeta ‘ēdāji’ - Rīgas Laiks.” Rīgas laiks, February 2015 (latviešu plūsmas studentiem)
7.
Nettleton, Sarah. 2013. The Sociology of Health and Illness. Reprinted. Cambridge: Polity Press. (klasiska medicīnas socioloģijas mācību grāmata)
8.
“Pētījums: 87% iedzīvotāju veselības aprūpes pieejamību vērtē kā viduvēju vai sliktu.” n.d. Accessed September 5, 2019. (latviešu plūsmas studentiem)
9.
Relating Social Theories to Medicine. n.d. Accessed September 3, 2019
10.
“Sabiedrības aizspriedumi atspoguļojas mediķos; HIV pacientiem atsaka pieņemšanu.” 2019. TVNET. April 14, 2019 (latviešu plūsmas studentiem)
11.
Will, Catherine M. 2020. 'And breathe...'? The sociology of health and illness in COVID‐19 time. Sociology of Health & Illness. Jun2020, Vol. 42 Issue 5, p.967-971.