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Full time, 1 year, Foundation Certificate courses. No prior qualifications needed, bursaries and accommodation available for eligible applicants. Next intake September 2010.

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Social Studies Course and Pathway to Nursing Modules

Sociology of Health & Illness

This module is a general introduction to sociological explanations of the distribution of health and life chances. The medical model is a specific way of thinking about and explaining disease and health based on biological factors, however sociologists, whilst not denying the obvious benefits of medical intervention challenge medical dominance.

This module introduces the social view of health and disease, along with social status and inequality and health. By challenging the dominance of the medical model and considering how medicalisation has transformed natural experiences into medical ones.

AIM
The aim of this module is to examine how sociology provides not only essential information about the context of health and illness but to uncover and question the very basis of our understanding of health, medicine and illness.

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