Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
Anthropological perspective on care
Course Code
KSK_283
Branch of Science
Social Anthropology; Sociology and social work
ECTS
3.00
Target Audience
Communication Science; Health Management; Medicine; Nursing Science; Public Health; Social Anthropology; Social Welfare and Social Work
LQF
Level 7
Study Type And Form
Full-Time
Study Course Implementer
Course Supervisor
Anna Žabicka
Structure Unit Manager
Ieva Puzo
Structural Unit
Faculty of Social Sciences
Contacts
Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf@rsu.lv
About Study Course
Objective
The aim of the study course is to provide knowledge and create an understanding of care from an anthropological point of view, looking at and analyzing care in the context of kinship, political economy, social security, and global public health.
Preliminary Knowledge
Ability to read academic texts in English. Preferred prior knowledge in medical anthropology, medical sociology, or public health.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.Students understand the versatility of care, as well as its potential moral ambiguity, both in the context of state-provided social and health care and in caring for each other within a family or community. Students understand the relationship and role of care in shaping society and how care is influenced and formed by global and local political economy, political regimes, cultural values, understanding of kinship, global migration and (global) public health policies.
Skills
1.Students are trained to analyse the social, emotional, moral and political elements of care, as well as to evaluate care beyond usual dichotomies as “good/bad”, “public/private”, etc. Students can analytically read high-quality academic social science literature, which covers topics such as health, medicine, welfare, kinship and political economy. Students are capable to express verbally and in writing a reasoned, example-based view of care issues.
Competences
1.Students can competently discuss the social, cultural, global political and economic processes that affect and shape care and the role of care in society. Students are competent to discuss the importance of care in public health and more broadly its role in the social organization.
Assessment
Individual work
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Reading and analysis of required literature.
Concise (250-500 words) written posts on seminar texts to be submitted by the day of the seminar.
A short closing essay (1500-2000 words) on a topic related to the course, using compulsory and additional literature.
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Examination
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Active participation in seminar discussions;
Five concise posts on the texts of the seminar;
Final essay.
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Study Course Theme Plan
FULL-TIME
Part 1
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Introduction
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Kinship and care
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Care and political economy
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Care and political economy
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Care and global public health
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Care and global public health
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Care as social organization I
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Care as social organization II
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Care, work and institution
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Care, welfare and social security
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
3.00
Contact hours:
20 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Test
Bibliography
Required Reading
1.
Heinemann, Laura Lynn. 2013. For the Sake of Others: Reciprocal Webs of Obligation and the Pursuit of Transplantation as a Caring Act. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 28(1):66-8
2.
Block, E. 2016. The AIDS House: Orphan care and the changing household in Lesotho
3.
Hromadžić, Azra, and Monika Palmberger (eds.) 2018. “Care across Distance: Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration, Berghahn Books.
4.
Skornia A.K. .2015. Renegotiating the Care of Children and the Elderly in the Context of Family Migration: Transnational Arrangements and Entangled Inequalities Between Peru and Italy. In: Alber E., Drotbohm H. (eds) Anthropological Perspectives on Care. Palgrave Macmillan, New York
5.
Stillo, J. 2019. “I wish one of these patients would sue us:” Malpractice at the policy level and how Romania is not treating M/XDR-TB.