75068 - HEALTH, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Contenuti

Main concepts that will be discussed in the course: 
Medicalization; Health cultures and healthscapes; Social theories for global health; Structural violence Pharmachologization; Biomedicalization; Genetification; Human Enhancement; Reflexive longevity; Digital health; Sociology of diagnosis; Neurochemical selves; Quantified self.

Testi/Bibliografia

REQUIRED READINGS

 

Maturo A. Shifting borders of medicalization, in Maturo A., Conrad P. (Eds.) (2009), The Medicalization of Life, Salute e Società, n. 2

 

Conrad P. Shifting Engines of Medicalization, in Maturo A., Conrad P. (Eds.) (2009), The Medicalization of Life, Salute e Società, n. 2

 

 

Horowitz A. and Wakefield J.C. The Medicalization of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed a Natural Emotion into a Mental Disorder

 

Farmer P. (2005), Pathologies of Power, University of California Press, Berkeley: Ch. 1 On suffering and structural violence, pp. 29-50.

 

Scalvini M. (2010), Glamorizing sick body: how advertising has changed the representation of HIV/AIDS, Social Semiotics, 20(3): 219-231

 

 

Rose N. (2004), Becoming neurochemical selves, in Stehr N. (2004) (Eds.), Biotechnology, Commerce, and Civil Society, Transaction Press, http://www2.lse.ac.uk/sociology/pdf/rose-becomingneurochemicalselves.pdf

 

 

Kleinman P. (2010), Four social theories for global health, The Lancet, 375: 1518-1519

 

Wolf G. (2010), The Data-Driven Life, in «The New York Times – Sunday Review», May 2nd.

 

Furedi F. (2006), The End of Professional Dominance, “Society”, 43(6): 14-18

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02698479?LI=true#page-1

 

Oeppen J., Vaupel J.W. (2002), Demography. Broken limits to life expectancy, Science, 296: 1029-1031

Olshanky S.J. et (2005), A Potential Decline in Life Expectancy in the United States in the 21st Century, New England Journal of Medicine, 352: 1138-1145

 

Kaufman S.R. (2010), Time, clinic technologies, and the making of reflexive longevity: the cultural work of time left in an ageing society, in: Sociology of Health and Illness, 32/2 – Special Issue : Eds. Joyce K., Loe M. (2010), Technogenarians: studying health and illness through an ageing, science, and tecnology lens

 

Marshall B.L. (2010), Science, medicine and virility surveillance: ‘sexy seniors' in the pharmaceutical imagination, Sociology of Health and Illness, 32/2 – Special Issue : Eds. Joyce K., Loe M. (2010), Technogenarians: studying health and illness through an ageing, science, and tecnology lens

 

 

 

 

 

Maturo A. (2014) Fatism, Self-Monitoring and the Pursuit of Healthiness in the Time of Technological Solutionsim. “Italian Sociological Review”, 2014,  4 (2), 157-171

 

Maturo A. (2012). Social Justice and Human Enhancement in Today's Bionic Society, “Salute e Societa'”, 2012, XI(2): 15-28

 

 

Uchida Y., Norasakkunkit V., Kitayama S. (2004), Cultural Construction of Happiness: Theory and Empirical Evidence, “Journal of Happiness Studies”, 5: 223-239.

 

Veenhoven R. Sociological Theories of Subjective Well-being, in Eid M., Larsen R (Eds.), The Science of Subjective Well-being, Guilford, NY, 2008

 

 

 

Presentations in the classroom are part of the program.

Presentations will be based on one or more articles on HTS.

Students who do not attend classes must e-mail Prof. Maturo to discuss the syllabus.

Metodi didattici

Group discussion, class work, presentations.

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

Final examination.

Presentations in the classroom are part of the program.

Presentations will be based on one or more articles on HTS.

Students who do not attend classes must e-mail Prof. Maturo to discuss the syllabus.

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

Powerpoint, group discussion, papers.

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Antonio Francesco Maturo