Health Sciences 2700A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ethnography, Bsc Young Boys, Group Cohesiveness

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2700A/B
• Professor: Treena Orchard

Document Summary

Course perspectives: critical medical anthropology, health and illness are produced and experienced at three intersecting levels: Individual or micro level: socio-cultural or meso level, political-economic or macro level, canadian and global ethnographic research expertise, marginalized populations children & youth, women in sex work, people affected by hiv/aids, urban and reserve. Aboriginal communities, gay men: focus on lived experience of health in broader socio-economic, cultural, and political context. Course objectives: to encourage new ways of thinking about health, childhood, and adolescence, to understand the socio-economic, cultural, scientific, and political process at play in the construction of these overlapping phenomenon. It(cid:859)s a si(cid:373)ple as (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)i(cid:374)g a(cid:449)a(cid:396)e of (cid:455)ou(cid:396) he(cid:396)e a(cid:374)d (cid:374)o(cid:449) Internally and in the external world around you. It gives you space in the present moment. Lecture 2 - health, childhood & adolesce(cid:374)ce: the co(cid:374)structio(cid:374) of ideas through the exa(cid:373) of (cid:858)dis(cid:859) ability. Objectives: knowledge about health, childhood, and adolescence exist, along a continuum.