Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (20.12.2022)
Sociocultural anthropology in general, and medical anthropology in particular, has been questioning predominant
understandings of human body, health, and sickness. This course focuses on anthropological encounters with
beliefs and practices through which embodiment, wellbeing, and afflictions are experienced, communicated, and
enacted in the contemporary cross-cultural context and globalized world. Topics covered include medical
pluralism, disability, (bio)medicalization, reproduction, mental health, complementary and alternative medicine,
and (bio)medical technologies. By the end of the course, students will have a better grasp of concepts and
methods of sociocultural anthropology; they will be able to critically reflect on their own and others’ embodied
experiences of health and disease; and they will be able to apply findings of medical anthropology beyond the
field.
Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (20.12.2022)
Sociocultural anthropology in general, and medical anthropology in particular, has been questioning predominant
understandings of human body, health, and sickness. This course focuses on anthropological encounters with
beliefs and practices through which embodiment, wellbeing, and afflictions are experienced, communicated, and
enacted in the contemporary cross-cultural context and globalized world. Topics covered include medical
pluralism, disability, (bio)medicalization, reproduction, mental health, complementary and alternative medicine,
and (bio)medical technologies. By the end of the course, students will have a better grasp of concepts and
methods of sociocultural anthropology; they will be able to critically reflect on their own and others’ embodied
experiences of health and disease; and they will be able to apply findings of medical anthropology beyond the
field.
Cíl předmětu - angličtina
Poslední úprava: PhDr. Jaroslav Klepal, Ph.D. (21.01.2023)
To examine and compare ways in which anthropologists from different theoretical and epistemological perspectives approach issues of body, health, and illness.
To introduce anthropological perspectives which emphasise the cultural, historical, political, economic, and social contexts in which body, health, and illness are produced, understood and responded to.
To encourage students to develop in-depth knowledge of key debates and topics in medical anthropology.
Metody výuky - angličtina
Poslední úprava: PhDr. Jaroslav Klepal, Ph.D. (21.01.2023)
The main teaching methods of this course will be lectures and discussions. During the course we will listen to several lectures by invited guests and watch several documentaries. Within the discussion part, students will present readings and questions. There will be one or two presentations at every class session, depending on a number of students enrolled.
Sylabus - angličtina
Poslední úprava: PhDr. Jaroslav Klepal, Ph.D. (21.01.2023)
1) Medical anthropology: Keywords, key distinctions, and historical trajectories
2) Research and methods in medical anthropology
3) Body and embodiment
4) Ethnomedicine
5) Medical pluralism
6) (Bio)medicalization
7) Gender, birth and reproduction
8) Dis/ability
9) Anthropology and/of psychiatry
10) Complementary and alternative medicine
11) Biomedical technologies
A detailed syllabus will be distributed at the beginning of the semester.
Podmínky zakončení předmětu - angličtina
Poslední úprava: PhDr. Jaroslav Klepal, Ph.D. (31.01.2023)
