Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:

1. Describe key substantive areas in the sociology of health and illness.

2. Demonstrate their understanding of key issues and themes within the sociology of health and illness.

3. Distinguish theoretical and empirical concerns within medical sociology at different levels of social analysis (ranging from everyday interactions to broader population patterns and trends in health and illness).

4. Evaluate theoretical and empirical concerns within medical sociology at different levels of social analysis.

5. Analyse the medicalisation of everyday life, including but also going beyond case studies explored in the module.

6. Elucidate the importance of placing health and illness within their social, cultural and political contexts for particular domains.