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A discussion of concepts of disease
through time, from the Book of Job to this year's The
Globe & Mail. Students read texts written by philosophers
and physicians to discover the theoretical underpinnings of the
construction of medical knowledge.
Syllabus, click
here
Info on essay, click
here
New items in 2010 course pack click here
Learning Objectives:
- To understand the concept of a theory.
- To understand the philosophical underpinnings of medical
knowledge.
- To understand how the business of medical epistemology
is the construction of disease.
- To understand how diseases are/have been constructed socially,
empirically, and theoretically.
- To understand and be able to use the theories of disease
as analytical tools.
- To understand how and why changes occur in dominant theories
of disease.
- To understand the historical context of health care in
the late twentieth century.
- To become familiar with some works of major writers in
philosophy and medicine.
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