Language and medicine 3003-C4K-GO2
1. Language towards medicine, medical communication and the phenomenon of disease/illness/sickness - problem recognition
2. Functions of language and utterance in a medical context (therapeutic function of the word)
3. Verbal and non-verbal communication in the doctor-patient relationship
4. Plain language in medical communication
5. Patient's perspective and stereotyping of diseases recorded in language
6. Language of the experience of pain and disease in contemporary Polish
7. Metaphor in medicine and medical communication
8. Medicalization and other forms of penetration of scientific knowledge and terminology into the general language
9. Medical professions
10. Contexts of humanistic medicine / medical humanities: an introduction to narrative medicine
11. Narrative medicine in clinical practice and didactics
Type of course
Mode
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Learning outcomes
After completing the course, students:
- use the basic terms of medical communication and narrative medicine
- distinguish between the patient's and the biomedical perspective in the perception of the disease/illness
- analyze and critically evaluate the metaphors relating to the disease/illness phenomenon and using the disease as the source domain
- define the basic functions of utterance in a medical context
- characterize the role of language in medical communication
- know the principles of plain language in written messages addressed to patients
- recognize the phenomenon of medicalization in texts
- analyze and interpret texts according to narrative medicine
Assessment criteria
- case studies, discussions, lecture elements, text analysis (individual and group)
The conditions for passing the classes are:
- attendance and activity during classes (2 unexcused absences are allowed)
- preparation of a term paper (it can be an individual or in pairs project): a selected text (e.g. literary, journalistic) interpreted in the perspective of narrative medicine or in the context of one of the topics discussed during classes
Additional information
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