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| SYLLABUS |
| Illness, Narrativity and the Clinical Encounter I,
6 ECTS Credits |
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COURSE CATEGORY Course within the Programme - Master of Arts and Science in Health and Society
MAIN FIELD OF STUDY Health and Society - HOA
SUBJECT AREA
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COURSE CODE |
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HHSD14 |
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| AIM OF THE COURSE |
| Dialogue and rhetoric of clinical encounters, in which patients’ experiences of illness is the subject matter at hand, are often structured in the form of narratives (illness stories). The aim of this course for the students is to develop an understanding of the processes through which knowledge and power are established in the clinical encounter between patients and health care professionals in focusing on the narrative-hermeneutical tradition in medical humanities and social sciences. |
| CONTENTS |
| The course will deal with texts in humanities and social sciences examining the theme of narrativity in health care. Narratives of illness and health-care encounters is a research tradition which has been firmly established recently in disciplines such as bioethics, medical sociology and medical anthropology. The issues discussed in these fields are ontological as well as methodological. |
| TEACHING |
| Lectures, individual work and seminars. Alternatively as an individual course: reading, tutorials and written assignment. |
| EXAMINATION |
Active participation in seminars. Discussion of short papers presented by the students. Alternatively as an individual course: A written assignment.
Students failing an exam covering either the entire course or part of the course two times are entitled to have a new examiner appointed for the reexamination.
Students who have passed an examination may not retake it in order to improve their grades. |
| ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS |
Admission to the Master program in Health and Society or, as a single subject course, a Swedish “grundexamen” (fil. kand.), an international degree corresponding to a Bachelor in Arts and/or Science or studies up to a documented equivalent level. |
| GRADING |
| The course is graded according to the ECTS grading scale A-F |
| CERTIFICATE |
| Course certificate is issued by the Faculty Board on request. The Department provides a special form which should be submitted to the Student Affairs Division. |
| COURSE LITERATURE |
| The course literature is decided upon by the department
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| OTHER INFORMATION |
Planning and implementation of a course must take its starting point in the wording of the syllabus. The course evaluation included in each course must therefore take up the question how well the course agrees with the syllabus.
The course is carried out in such a way that both men´s and women´s experience and knowledge is made visible and developed. |
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Illness, Narrativity and the Clinical Encounter I
Illness, Narrativity and the Clinical Encounter I |
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Department responsible
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the course or
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IHS - Department of Health and Society |
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| Registrar No: 1237/04-41 |
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Course Code: HHSD14 |
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Exam codes: see Local Computer System |
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| Subject/Subject Area : Health and Society - HOA |
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Education level |
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Field of Education |
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HOA |
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HU |
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The syllabus was approved by the Board of Faculty of Arts and Science 2006-03-27
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