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Undergraduate Module Descriptor
SOC2085: Health, Illness and Bodies in Contemporary Society Part 1: Medicine and Social Control
This module descriptor refers to the 2016/7 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:
1. Ideas of Health and Illness
2. Experiences of Illness
3. Biomedicine and its Objects
4. Medicalization
5. Healthcare and the Market
6. Mental Health
7. Inequality and Structural Violence
8. ‘Women’s Health’ and the Politics of Reproduction
9. Longevity and the End of Life
10. Culture, Healthcare, and Medical Pluralism
11. Care
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | 128 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled learning activity | 11 | 11 x 1hour lectures |
| Scheduled learning activity | 11 | 11 x 1 hour tutorials |
| Guided independent study | 40 | 11 course readings |
| Guided independent study | 40 | Reading/research for essay |
| Guided independent study | 8 | Critique preparation |
| Guided independent study | 40 | Reading/revisions for exam |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Journals: Social Science and Medicine, Medical Anthropology, Sociology of Health and Illness, Health