Course Details
Country:
Turkey
Institution:
Sabanci University
Course Title:
Globalization and Health Inequalities
Course Number:
CULT 368/568
Course Description:
In the era of the COVID-19, the cultural conceptions of health and illness have changed drastically throughout the whole world, and a new awareness emerged on the global and local health inequalities. In this framework, this course introduces recent theoretical perspectives and ethnographic work which explore how the political and medical authorities, as well as the lay people, give meaning to and 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.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
GCH 494
Attachment Files:
CULT 368 568.pdf
