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DRPS : Course Catalogue : Deanery of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences : Public Health Research

Postgraduate Course: Social and Ethical Issues in Mental Health (PUHR11044)

This course will be closed from 13 January 2017

Course Outline
SchoolDeanery of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences CollegeCollege of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThe course will look at some of the key ethical and social issues in public mental health, including their historical dimensions. It will consider how approaches from the social sciences (for instance, the sociology of diagnosis, and the anthropology of pharmaceuticals) can contribute to our understanding of the historical and contemporary shaping of current ethical and social issues in mental health, and their impact in relation to policy, practice and individual experience. Topics to be covered include access to therapies, the development of diagnostic categories, and pharmaceutical marketing.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
- explain the significance of some of the key ethical and social issues in mental health today.
- describe how science, policy, clinical practice and popular culture interact to shape and define these issues.
- analyse current and emerging concerns in mental health by drawing on concepts and debates from the social sciences.
- evaluate policy, clinical and popular commentaries on mental health in terms of the ethical and social issues they mask or introduce.
- appreciate how national issues may come to have global significance.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Medicalisation, Mental Health Policy, Pharmac
Contacts
Course organiser Course secretaryMr Stuart Mallen
Tel: (0131 6)50 3227
Email: Stuart.Mallen@ed.ac.uk
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