SCIENZE INFERMIERISTICHE E MODELLI TEORICI DEL NURSING - channel 2

8 CFU - 1° Semester

Teaching Staff

MARCELLO PEZZINO - Module TEORIE DEL NURSING - MED/45 - 2 CFU
ANNA SCIABÒ - Module ETICA E DEONTOLOGIA INFERMIERISTICA - MED/45 - 2 CFU
ROBERTO VIGNERA - Module General Sociology - SPS/07 - 2 CFU
ANGELO ANTONIO GAMBERA - Module INFERMIERISTICA GENERALE - MED/45 - 2 CFU

Learning Objectives

General Sociology
The educational objectives are outlined as the realization of a plan of study designed to present some Sociology of Health and Illness issues as specifically configured on the peculiarities of the training process offered to students of the Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Particular attention will be paid in emphasizing those tools of theoretical and empirical orientation through which develop the analytical sensitivity necessary to identify problems that characterize the delicate relationship between the demand and supply of health resources in contemporary societies.

Course Structure

General Sociology
The teaching program will be done through lectures.

Detailed Course Content

General Sociology
1) Medicine and Society. In the heart of the social system.
2) The socio-cultural components of Health-Illness related behavior. The HBM - The HRA. Medical model and moral model.
3) The first ethnographic approaches to health and illness and their overcome.
4) The Parsonsian theory. The sick role and its institutionalization.
5) Somatic disease and mental illness. Roles and tasks. Pathogenic strains between system of personality and social system.
6) The therapeutic process as a form of social control in the doctor-patient dynamics system.
7) Criticism of Parsonsian perspective. The theme of mental illness. Integration Vs adaptation. Psychiatry and anti-psychiatry.
8) The sociology of medicine in the debate on the redefinition of welfare state. The tragic choices in health care.
9) The corporatization of health care and the overcoming of pure medical model.
10) The professionalization of the medical practice. Phases and contents.
11) Modernity and clinical primitivism. Predictive medicine and its protagonists.

Textbook Information

General Sociology
Vignera R., Protagonisti e interpreti della sociologia sanitaria, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2005, first part, capp. I, III, IV; second part, cap. I.

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