This course introduces recent theoretical perspectives and ethnographic work which explore how the political and medical authorities as well as the lay people, discuss the effects of globalization and global encounters on health inequalities, and how the global and local health policies address these inequalities. It covers such topics as the role of global health institutions in addressing the health inequalities, tensions between states’ priorities and global impositions in defining and applying health policies, competition between biomedicine and alternative medical systems, local interpretations of global medical technologies and local conceptualizations of global epidemics. The course also includes nuanced approaches to the global and local ethical issues around the body, gender, life, illness, birth, death and pharmaceutical industry
Globalization and Health Inequalities (CULT 368)
| Programs\Type | Required | Core Elective | Area Elective |
| Cultural Studies | * | ||
| Cultural Studies | * | ||
| Visual Arts and Visual Communications Design | * | ||
| Visual Arts and Visual Communications Design | * |
CONTENT
OBJECTIVE
Understanding how global, national and local political, economic and cultural inequalities are reflected, reproduced and challenged in the health realm and medical institutions, since the 19th century onwards.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
- Learn different disciplines in social sciences and humanities approach the issues of health inequalities at global and local levels.
- Acquire an understanding on how the historical and current political, economic and cultural inequalities are reflected, reproduced and challenged in the health realm and medical institutions.
- Learn about the social constructions of health, illness, body, life and death in particular cultural contexts.
- Explore different cultural patterns of discriminations, marginalizations and stigmatizations based on health and illness issues.
- Explore how the patients and lay people challenge the existing health inequalities through patient activisms and lobbying.
PROGRAMME OUTCOMES
1. Understand the world, their country, their society, as well as themselves and have awareness of ethical problems, social rights, values and responsibility to the self and to others. 5
2. Understand different disciplines from natural and social sciences to mathematics and art, and develop interdisciplinary approaches in thinking and practice. 5
3. Think critically, follow innovations and developments in science and technology, demonstrate personal and organizational entrepreneurship and engage in life-long learning in various subjects; have the ability to continue to educate him/herself. 4
4. Communicate effectively in Turkish and English by oral, written, graphical and technological means. 4
5. Take individual and team responsibility, function effectively and respectively as an individual and a member or a leader of a team; and have the skills to work effectively in multi-disciplinary teams. 3
1. Demonstrate an understanding of the multiple methodologies and interpret different approaches, concepts, and theoretical legacies in the interdisciplinary field of Cultural Studies. 4
2. Identify interconnections of knowledge within and across the disciplines of sociology, anthropology, literature, visual studies, philosophy, and geography. 5
3. Cultivate a critical approach to the study of culture, articulating the relations between culture, power, and history; exploring cultural diversity and socio-cultural change at the local, national and global level; and exploring the corresponding demands for rights and social justice. 5
4. With the use of appropriate technologies, be able to present advanced oral and written evaluations of developments in the realm of cultural production, consumption, and representation. 4
1. Demonstrate safe working habits and a general understanding of materials and processes in the visual arts. 1
2. Demonstrate knowledge of representational processes using visual as well as audial material as mediums of representation. 2
3. Show working knowledge of the process of transforming abstract/textual concepts into concrete, audio/visual forms. 3
4. Appreciate and express the cultural significance of art and understand its evolution and purposes. 2
5. Develop an awareness of compositional and organizational strategies for the effective deployment of formal elements of visual art. 2
6. Read visual texts with a deep knowledge of art history and theory and the ability of situating the content and form of the visual representation both in a historical and thematic context. 2
7. Employ necessary background knowledge regarding art administration in the body of museums and galleries. 1
8. Show a practical and technical command of materials and methods in one or more media of the visual arts. 1
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ASSESSMENT METHODS and CRITERIA
| Percentage (%) | |
| Final | 40 |
| Midterm | 30 |
| Participation | 10 |
| Other | 20 |
RECOMENDED or REQUIRED READINGS
| Readings |
March 2-4. Global Patterns before Globalization: Colonialism and Imperialism ?Intervention Pathologies?, ?Vitality of the State?. Ungovernable Life: Mandatory Medicine and Statecraft in Iraq, Omar Dewachi, pg. 9-63. Stanford University Press, 2017 ?Introduction?, ?Medicine, Enlightenment and Islam?. Quest of Justice: Islamic Law and Forensic Medicine in Modern Egypt, Khaled Fahmy, pg. 1- 80. University of California Press, 2018 March 9-11. Medical Professions and Health Inequalities ?Doctors without Empires?. Ungovernable Life: Mandatory Medicine and Statecraft in Iraq, Omar Dewachi, pg. 65-81. Stanford University Press, 2017 ?The Desirable?, New Organs within Us: Transplants and the Moral Economy, Aslıhan Sanal, pg. 15-110. Duke University Press, 2011 March 16-18. Pandemics: Old and New March 23-March 25. Chronic Diseases and Inequalities ?Creating and Embedding Cancer in Botswana?s Oncology Ward?. Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic, Julie Livingstone, pg. 52-84, Duke University Press, 2011 ?Why and how Inequality Matters?, Jane D. McLeod, Journal of Health and Social Behaviour, vol: 56 (2), pg. 149-165, 2015 ?Experiments in Scale: Humanitarian Psychiatry in Post-Disaster Turkey?, Christopher T. Dole, Medical Anthropology, pg.398-412, 2020
?Pharmaceutical Governance?, Joao Biehl. Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices, Adriana Petryna, Andrew Lakoff & Arthur Kleinman (eds), pg: 206-239, Duke University Press, 2006
?Refugee Health and Rehabilitation: Challenges and Response?, Fary Khan &Bhasker Amatya, Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, vol: 49, pg: 378-384, 2017 ?Childbirth in Santiago de Chile: Stratification, Intervention, and Child Centeredness?, Marjorie Murray, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, vol: 26 (3), pg. 319-337, 2012 ?The Culling: Pandemic, Gerocide, Generational Effect?, Lawrence Cohen, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, vol: 34 (4), pg. 542-560, 2020 May 4-6. Public Health and Humanitarianism ?Governing Ebola: Between Global Health and Medical Humanitarianism?, Sophie Harman & Clare Wenham, Globalizations, vol: 15(3), pg. 362-376, 2018
?Rethinking Medical Ethics: A View From Below?, Paul Farmer, Developing World: Bioethics, vol: 4 (1), pg. 17-41, 2004 ?Bioethics, Human Rights and Childbirth?, Joanna N. Erdman, Health and Human Rights Journal, vol: 17 (1), pg. 43-51, 2015 |