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Culture, Communication and Ethics in Health Care: Deaf and Disability Studies Approaches - 3 credits

丽贝卡·加登博士.D.
Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, SUNY 推荐最近最火的赌博软件 Medical University

This course provides a model for collaborative and culturally sensitive and skilled communication in health care.  Through the study of 道德 cases, 叙述, 和文学, students will analyze disparities and discrimination in health care for people who are deaf and disabled.

Culture and Mental Disorder - 3 credits

约翰·汤森博士.D.
Anthropology, Syracuse University

Mental disorders viewed as illnesses or social constructions. Cross-cultural variation and universals. Western and non-Western methods of treatment. Additional work required of graduate students.

Culture and Reproductive Health and Medicine - 3 credits

桑德拉·莱恩博士.D.
Public Health, Falk College, Syracuse University

This course examines diverse ways in which societies throughout the globe view and manage human reproduction and the implications this has for health care and medicine. 重点将主要是, 虽然不完全如此, on women’s 生殖健康 throughout the life cycle, 包括青春期, 性, 怀孕, 计划生育, 分娩, 不孕不育, 和更年期. The course also explores changes in 生殖健康 care in the context of globalization and considers how an understanding of the influence of culture on 生殖健康 is crucial for the development of international public health policy and practice.

Disability, Food, and Health - 3 credits

凯瑟琳·麦克唐纳博士.D., FAAIDD
Public Health, Falk College, Syracuse University

This course covers major theories, 历史事件, 法律, 服务, and research related to health and wellness for persons with disabilities including disparities, 健康促进, 道德, 老化, 暴力, 备灾.

Disability, Medicine, and Representation - 3 credits

丽贝卡·加登博士.D.
Department of PUblic Health and Preventive Medicine, 纽约州立大学推荐最近最火的赌博软件医科大学

This course aims to bring disability and medicine into cross-disciplinary dialogue by examining representations of disability and medicine in film, 文学, and medical texts on disability.  These texts and conventions are considered in light of critical discussions of representation and disability. The "medicalization" of disability is examined, with students invited to explore disability and ability as cultural representations, wherein bodily abilities and limitations are conditioned by subjective perceptions of “normalcy.”  A principal question is how to incorporate a “social model” of disability into medical/clinical education and practice. Disability studies scholars and clinicians working on disability will be guest speakers.

 

First Person: Narratives of Illness, Disability, and Identity - 3 credits

丽贝卡·加登博士.D.
Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 纽约州立大学推荐最近最火的赌博软件医科大学

This course explores first-person 叙述 of illness and disability, especially in light of other forms of social difference, 比如性别, 性, 种族, 和类. Using tools of literary analysis and cultural criticism, students come together from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds to examine the experiences of writers with AIDS, 自闭症, 癌症, 肝炎, 还有多发性硬化症. Students consider ethical and social issues such as doctor/patient relationships, 照顾者的关系, 控制问题, 权威, 外观, and “normalcy” and the role of empathy and emotion in medicine and healing.

全球健康- 3学分

桑德拉·莱恩博士.D.
Public Health, Falk College, Syracuse University

This course examines global health from an anthropological perspective. It explores how culture affects people's experience and response to morbidity and mortality. 前ics considered include gender and health, 生殖健康, 传染性疾病, health and inequality and health and war.

Health Promotion: Disability - 3 credits

凯瑟琳·麦克唐纳博士.D., FAAIDD
Public Health, Falk College, Syracuse University

This course covers the factors influencing the health and well-being of persons with disability, 包括残疾模型, 残疾的历史, 法律及服务, 健康差异, 健康促进, 道德, 暴力, 备灾.

Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspectives - 3 credits

约翰·汤森博士.D.
Anthropology, Syracuse University

The fundamental tenets of health care delivery are analyzed and the concepts of "health,”“疾病,”“病人,”“治愈,和“效率”进行了探讨. Western medical practices are compared to practices in other cultures; implicit premises and deficiencies in western medicine are highlighted. 前ics include analysis of status and roles in hospitals; socialization into the culture of medicine; magical curing; economic barriers to better health care; problems introducing western medicine into alien cultures; and the patient’s role.

 

Public Health Ethics - 3 credits

桑德拉·莱恩博士.D.
Public Health, Falk College, Syracuse University

This course addresses ethical issues in public health. Public health 道德 is a new area of scholarship and practice that addresses population-level health issues, including issues such as food stamps and health insurance, 免疫接种, 公共卫生研究, legal and policy responses to 传染性疾病s and epidemics, and the role of religious and social values in setting health policy.