Social Aspects of Illness

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Pre-Requisites: CISO 3121, CISO 3122, PSIC 3005 The course elaborates, in a general way, a theoretical framework, which comprises, from the mechanical to the complex, the worldview utilized in the human sciences to account for the ill human being. It provides for the discussion of the processes by which the ill subject is constituted through the everyday practices of medicine/health professions. Given its importance to the field of physical therapy, the course will analyze the communication processes in the interaction physiotherapist -patient, paying par ticular attention to the notion of body movement as product and producer of signification as well as to the position occupied by the physical therapist in the resignification process of the ill body. The course is opened to graduate students from other programs. TEFI 7011 - Clinical Kinesiology I. Two and a half (2.50) credits. Pre-requisites: ANAT 7425. This is the first of two courses that deals with the study of human motion, which includes kinematics and kinetics required for the understanding of normal and abnormal movement.