Health and Biopolitics

Zdravje in biopolitike

Course credits:

6.00 ECTS / 45 (30 hours of lectures, 0 hours of exercises, 15 hours of seminars, 0 hours other forms of work)

Course holder:

doc. dr. Andreja Živoder

Lecturers:

• Asst. Prof. Nina Perger

Type:

Required

Language:

Slovenian

Semester:

Second semester

Study degree

2. level

Course execution:

• Postgraduate Programme of Sociology

Short content

This course informs students about the conceptualisation of relations between power (first of all health politics), capital, medical and psychological knowledge and practices; it explains technologies of disciplining and regulating life processes on the individual level as well as on the level of population in general (biopolitics). It analyses concepts and symbolic meanings of physical and mental health/illness, (ab)normality, pathology and anomaly. It explores health inequalities, unequal access to healthcare, and production of pathological categories which determines value of human life and which at the same time are the effect of social and political inequities.