SOCIETY, ILLNESS, & HEALTH in Fall 2023 (PY3069)

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This course examines health and illness in a social, cultural and historical context. The first part of the course focuses on physical or behavioural 'symptoms' without any apparent organic aetiology (e.g. sick-building syndrome), appearing in members of specific groups or localities (socio-genic illness). The second part of the course considers socio-cultural shaping and experience of other more prevalent disorders.

Course Master: 
SOCIETY, ILLNESS, & HEALTH (PY3069)
Term: 
Fall 2023
Discipline: 
PY (Psychology)
Credits: 
4 credits
Type: 
Regular
Level: 
Undergraduate
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Exam Date: 
Monday, December 18, 2023 - 16:00
Pre-requisites: 
College Level=Sophomore OR PY1000CCI
Co-requisites: 
None

Professor(s)

Learning Outcomes

  1. In addition to reading assignments students are expected to compile a bibliography for their mini-monograph, and will learn how to develop strategies for bibliographical research
  2. Students should be able to analyse current media representations of dissociative identity disorders, depression, stress, phobias and conduct disorders
  3. Students should be able to develop their own points of view in ethical debates about health behaviour modification
  4. Students should understand the role played by patient advocacy groups in the fight for medical recognition of “emergent illnesses”
  5. Students will be able to historically situate and define the term “Culture Bound Syndrome”, as well as understand the debate about using this term in Psychiatry
  6. Students will learn about the use of historical archives in Psychology
  7. Students will learn how to write a mini-monograph on a possible occurrence of sociogenic illness (either a historical or a contemporary one), on an “emergent illness” or on media representation of mental illness
  8. understand the concepts of medicalization and healthicization and be able to formulate their own point of view concerning the pertinence of these concepts

Syllabus

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Schedule

Start Date: 
Monday, September 4, 2023
End Date: 
Tuesday, December 19, 2023
DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
15:20
18:15
PL-1