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This Module explores the ways that all this Conception to Birth Philosophy can be seen in the Arts and Myths of various people in the world and will cast light to the understanding of Fine Arts, ie, literature, sculpture, expressive arts in general. Thus, the Student will be able to read between the lines and see the connection among all people irrelevant of time and place.
Issues of ethics, as well as legal aspects and Scientific Responsibility will give the Student the possibility to develop Professional Behavior that adds value to the Human Existence.
Course Features
- Lectures 11
- Quiz 1
- Duration 80 hours
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 451
- Certificate Yes
- Assessments Self
Curriculum
- 1 Section
- 11 Lessons
- 10 Weeks
- The Anthropology of Birth, Cross-cultural Aspects12
- 1.1Culture, Health and Illness: an introduction (Cross-Cultural Aspects Of Health): key questions when thinking about health; biology/culture (nature/nurture debate); can we think of a “biological” health different from culture?
- 1.2Understanding health from the perspective of social sciences, studies of magic and religion (still birth was considered “biological” and sexual/reproductive issues only studies if they related to superstition, magic, religion; “symbolic efficiency”)
- 1.3Recognition of culture in health, cognitive/symbolic medical anthropology (Mead, Benedict, Kleinman, Good); explicative models and semantic networks.
- 1.4Recognition of culture in health, cognitive/symbolic medical anthropology (Mead, Benedict, Kleinman, Good); explicative models and semantic networks.
- 1.5Models Of The Human Body; Fertility, Pregnancy, Birth And Childbearing; Human Life Cycle, Biopolitics, body, embodiment, gender (Mead, Foucault, Bourdieu, Butler), biomedicine as cultural system
- 1.6The disciplining of sexuality and having children: case discussion (female genital mutilation, hysteria, purity/impurity, etc)
- 1.7Anthropology of Reproduction: Fertility, Pregnancy, Birth and Childbearing in a cross-cultural perspective (Martin, Inhorn…)
- 1.8Birth in Four Cultures (Jordan) (The Evolution Of Maternal Birthing Positions; Cross-Cultural aspects of birth)
- 1.9Medicalization of birth (Davis-Floyd, Kitzinger)
- 1.10Actual debates (care, autonomy, biology/culture revisited)
- 1.11Contemporary dilemmas on multiculturality and access to sexual-reproductive health services
- 1.12FINAL QUIZ60 Questions
