Cultural Perspectives on Health, Lifestyle and Medicine

Education facts

Code: SASH61

<p>In this course, you will explore health, lifestyle, and medicine through cultural and ethnographic perspectives. The course discusses different urgent societal issues relating to illness, diagnosis and well-being in contemporary and historical societies.</p><p>This course covers topics like the body, illness experiences, disability, ethics, and the new health economy from a cultural perspective. The course is grounded in current research in ethnology, medical anthropology, and cultural studies. You will discuss issues related to different cases, for example, the doctor-patient encounter, living with chronic illness, controversial biotechnological diagnoses and treatments,and discourses on risk and responsibility. Through lectures, seminars, and group exercises, you will gain a theoretical understanding of how identity, class, gender, ethnicity, and age affect medical treatments and lifestyle patterns. By the end of the course, you will have a deeper understanding of the cultural dimensions of illness and health. </p>

Entry requirements

General requirements for university studies in Sweden

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Cultural Perspectives on Health, Lifestyle and Medicine

  Lund University

  Lund

  Start date: 5 March 2027

  End date: 21 May 2027

  Pace of study: 50 %