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| Semester | Frühjahrsemester 2019 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Henri-Michel Yéré (h.yere@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | The intention of this course is to interrogate the relationship between discourses pertaining to human difference and equality on the one hand, and an account for what “scientific objectivity” has to say on the matter, on the other hand. Rapid scientific developments in the field of biological and medical research have opened new perspectives on our understanding of disease and their manifestations. At the heart of these findings lies a renewed understanding of human genetics. A key marker of distinction amongst people, the advancements in genetic research have evolved in parallel with the rise of new discourses on the meaning of human origin, and on the ways in which people can be healed. Through an analysis of past examples of discussions during which the notion of the existence of hierarchies amongst people was considered a serious argument, we will ask the question of knowing the consequences of the current developments in the field of human genetic research as it relates to medicine, in terms of our common understanding of human difference today. Amongst other notions, we will appeal to a sociology of ethics and a sociology of knowledge, in order to discuss the status of scientific knowledge in relation to our subjective capacity to form a worldview in connection to real-world social, political and cultural dynamics. |
| Lernziele | •Revisit the main debates on the rapid evolutions of genetic research, and the wide range of implications these evolutions may carry for the relationship between the medical corps and patients, but also on the reconfigurations of discourses on race, gender, politics and representations •Revisit theories of race and their relationship to genetics as a discourse and as a scientific practice •Critically analyse the consequences of past theories of race on medical (in part medication) practice •Discuss case-studies currently at play within the Pharma industry |
| Literatur | (This is only an indicative list of texts that will be useful for the class. A longer list will follow prior to the start of the class) Cornel West, Race Matters (Boston: Beacon Press, 1993) J. Blaine Hudson, ‘Scientific Racism: The Politics of Tests, Race and Genetics’, in The Black Scholar, Vol. 25, No. 1, BLACK INTELLIGENCE (Winter 1995), pp. 3-10 UNESCO, Statement of the Nature of Race and of Race Differences, Paris, June 1951(http://www.honestthinking.org/en/unesco/UNESCO.1951.Statement_on_Race.htm) Adam Hedgecoe, The Politics of Personalised Medicine: Pharmacogenetics in the Clinic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004) |
| Bemerkungen | Start date of the course: Monday 18 March 2019 !!! |
| Teilnahmebedingungen | Advanced Bachelor students may register for the course. Priority is given to Master students. |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Aufbaumodul (Teil D) (Transfakultäre Querschnittsprogramme im freien Kreditpunkte-Bereich) Modul: Advances in Epidemiology, Statistics and Global & Public Health (Masterstudium: Epidemiologie) Modul: Areas: Afrika (Master Studiengang: Europäische Geschichte in globaler Perspektive ) Modul: Fields: Knowledge Production and Transfer (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul: Fields: Public Health and Social Life (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul: Methoden - Reflexion - Theorien: Differenz - Identität - Kritik (Master Studiengang: Europäische Geschichte (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2018)) Modul: Profil: Geschichte Afrikas (Master Studiengang: Europäische Geschichte (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2018)) Modul: Profil: Moderne (Master Studiengang: Europäische Geschichte (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2018)) Modul: Reflexion, Methodik, Praxis (Master Studiengang: Europäische Geschichte in globaler Perspektive ) Modul: Sachthemen der Ethnologie (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie) Modul: Ungleichheit, Konflikt, Kultur (Master Studienfach: Soziologie) Vertiefungsmodul Global Europe: Global Ageing and Health (Masterstudium: European Global Studies) Wahlbereich Bachelor Geschichte: Empfehlungen (Bachelor Studienfach: Geschichte) Wahlbereich Master Geschichte: Empfehlungen (Master Studienfach: Geschichte) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Wiederholtes Belegen | nicht wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Zentrum für Afrikastudien |