An interdisciplinary project to create a sustainable and content-rich databank of re-usable e-learning resources which may be shared between disciplines and across institutions, supporting staff and students to embrace technological change and embed it into their practice.

A 6 month project (July - December 2002) between the Clinical School and the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge, funded by the Centre for Sociology Anthropology and Politics (C-SAP).

• Project Team
• Project Documentation

SHIELD RLO User Guide word
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The RLO collection:

Parsons' sick role (Kath Maguire) 07/08/02
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Learning objective: Understanding social roles
Summary: The concept, sources, criticisms and strengths of the sick role as developed by Talcott Parsons.
Keywords: Talcott Parsons, temporary sanctioned deviance, functionalism, psychoanalysis, authority | spec |

Doctor/patient relations (Kath Maguire) 24/06/03
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Learning objective: Understanding the general characteristics of the social roles 'doctor' and 'patient' and how these social roles relate to one another
Summary: Understanding various facets of the doctor-patient relationship and factors that facilitate and impede the success of that relationship
Keywords: Doctor/patient relations, Social role, gatekeeper, compliance, communication | spec |

Social class (Kath Maguire) 21/08/02
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Learning objective: Understanding the concept of social class, how it is modelled and some of the problems attached.
Summary: Define and explicate the sociological concept of social class and some of the debates surrounding its use generally and with specific reference to health
Keywords: Class, Conflict, Occupation, Inequality, NS-SEC. | spec |

The Black Report and Inequalities in Health (Kath Maguire) 02/09/02
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Learning objective: To understand the role of social class in health inequalities.
Summary: Shows the persistence and complexity of the social class/health gradient.
Keywords: Black Report, Class, Inequalities, artefact, social drift, culture, materialism, social capital | spec |

Gender and health (Kath Maguire) 24/09/02
Learning objective: This explains the distinction between sex and gender and opens a discussion of the impact of gender roles and gendered power relations on medicine and health
Keywords: Sex, Gender, Patriarchy, Power, Inequality Morbidity, Mortality
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Social Capital (Kath Maguire) 24/09/02
Learning objective: To understand the concept of social capital and how it might impact on health outcomes both positively and negatively.
Summary: explain the concept social capital and consider various ways in which sociologists have demonstrated both the importance of this concept for understanding modern society generally and the influence of social capital on health, illness, and mortality
Keywords: social cohesion, social network, social support, social integration | spec |

Medicalisation (Kath Maguire) 01/10/02
Learning objective: To explain the concept of medicalisation and the role of the medical model in the enforcing of social norms.
Keywords: Scientific, Discipline, Norms | spec |

Death (Kath Maguire) 01/10/02
Learning objective: To explain the centrality of the knowledge of mortality and the need for its social integration. To consider different views of death, natural, magical and pathological. Examine the impact of modern technologies on the experience and expectations of death. Introduce the concept of 'social death' and its possible nocebo effect. | spec |