Society for Medical Anthropology

Academic Resources: Graduate Programs

 

Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain

Degrees Offered

• M.A., Medical Anthropology and International Health
  
• M.A., Urban Anthropology
  
• Ph.D., Anthropology

Medical Anthropology Faculty

• URV, Tarragona, Spain:
  
• Mabel Gracia Arnaiz, Ph.D
  
• Angel Martínez-Hernáez, Ph.D
  
• Oriol Romaní, Ph.D.
  
• Marta Allué, Ph.D
  
• Xavier Allué; M.D., Ph D.
  
• Josep M. Comelles, M.D.,Ph.D
  
• Joan Guix, M.D., Ph.D.
  
• Susan M. DiGiacomo, Ph.D.

Barcelona:

• Josep Canals, Ph.D.
  
• Cristina Larrea, Ph.D
  
• Jon Arrizabalaga, M.D., Ph.D
  
• Oscar Guasch, Ph.D.

Grenada:

• Arturo Alvarez-Roldán, Ph.D.
  
• Rosa Medina, M.D.,Ph.D.
  
• Nuria Romo, Ph.D.
  
• Juan Gamella, Ph.D.

Basque Country:

• Mari Luz Esteban, M.D., Ph.D.
  
• Francisco Ferrandiz, Ph.D.
  
• José M. Uribe, Ph.D.

Murcia-Alicante:

• Enrique Perdiguero, M.D., Ph.D.
  
• José Fernández-Rufete, Ph.D.

Madrid and Castile:

• Rosario Otegui, Ph.D.
  
• Luis Montiel, M.D.,Ph.D.
  
• Gerardo Fernández, Ph.D.

Other Anthropology Faculty

• International:
  Els van Dongen. Ph.D. (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
  François Laplantine, Ph.D.. (Université Lumière-Lyon 2)
  Carl Kendall, Ph.D. (Tulane University)
  Eduardo Menéndez, Ph.D.. (CIESAS, Mexico)
  Rosa Osorio Ph.D. (CIESAS, Mexico)
  Mabel Grimberg Ph.D. (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
  Alberto Bialakowsky Ph.D. (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
  Tullio Seppilli (Fondazione Angelo Celli, Perugia, Italy)
  Michele Cros Ph.D. (Université Lumière-Lyon 2)
  Paolo Bartoli Ph.D. (Università degli studi di Perugia)
  Pino Schirripa Ph.D. (Università degli Studi la Sapienza)
  Paola Falteri Ph.D. (Università degli Studi di Perugia)
  Lionel Obadia Ph.D. (Université Lumière-Lyon 2)
  Lateitia Atlani Ph.D. (Université Lumière-Lyon 2)
  Michèle Cros Ph.D. (Université Lumière-Lyon 2)
  Luis da Silva Pereira Ph.D. (ISPA, Lisboa)

Program Information: M.A. MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY (2006-2008)
Beginning: September 2006

1c. Concentrations

• A. Health professions track: ends with practicum and report
  B. Academic/research track: ends with final research report
• The M.A. program consists of a total of 120 European Credit Transfer System (1 ECTS equals 25 hours of student work)
• Year 1: 60 ECTS
  Year 2: 60 ECTS

2. Course work

• 2a. Course requirements and structure
  Courses are scheduled in one intensive two-week period per month, beginning on Monday afternoon and ending on Friday at noon, and consist of lectures, seminars, workshops and individual tutorials (20 to 30 hours per week). In addition to class time, each course also requires 45-50 extra hours of student work outside of class. There is web support for e-mail tutorials as well.

Course titles, ECTS and type

• Year 1, First Semester
• Introduction to social and cultural anthropology, 3 ECTS
  Elective
• Introduction to the health sciences, 3 ECTS
  Elective
• The hegemony of Western biomedicine and the process of medicalization, 6 ECTS
  Required
• The ethnography of lay health practices, 6 ECTS
  Required
• Theory I: Medical paradigms, 3 ECTS
  Required
• Quantitative methods workshop, 3 ECTS
  Required
• Epidemiology, 3 ECTS
  Required
• Documentation in medical anthropology 3 ECTS
  Required
• Ethnographic methodology, 3 ECTS
  Required
• Year 1, Second Semester
• Qualitative Research Methods, 9 ECTS
  Required
• Demography workshop, 3 ECTS
  Required
• Rapid Assessment Procedures workshop, 3 ECTS
  Required
• Projects in applied medical anthropology, 3 ECTS
  Required
• Multivariate analysis. Ethnographic analysis software, 3 ECTS
  Required
• Theory II: Gender, inequality and conflict, 3 ECTS
  Required
• Theory III: Phenomenology, body and emotions, 3 ECTS
  Required
• Theory IV: Sociological theories of personhood and illness, 3 ECTS
  Required
• Theory V: Critical medical anthropology, 3
  Required
• Year 2., Third Semester
• Seminar 1: Mental health, 6 ECTS
  Elective
• Seminar 2: International health and infectious diseases, 6 ECTS
  Elective
• Seminar 3: Public policy and health care, 6 ECTS
  Elective
• Seminar 4. Food and nutrition, 6 ECTS
  Elective
• Seminar 5: Social problems and health care systems, 6 ECTS
  Elective
• Students may choose external seminars in other universities via student exchange programs (Erasmus-Socrates, etc…)
• Year 2., Fourth Semester
• Practicum, 24 ECTS
  Elective
• Research Report, 24 ECTS
  Elective
• Seminar, 3 ECTS
  Required
• Final Workshop, 3 ECTS
  Required

3. Areas of research

• Public health policy
  Cultural psychiatry
  Drugs
  Disability studies
  Migration and health
  Gender and health
  International health
  Masculinity and health
  Medical pluralism
  Anthropological theory
  Risk and violence

Contact

• Angel Martínez-Hernáez, Ph.D, Professor
  Departament d'Antropologia, Filosofia i Treball Social
  Universitat Rovira i Virgili
  Pl. Imperial Tàrraco 1
  43005 TARRAGONA
  Spain
  Tel.: +34977.55.97.48
  Fax: +34.977.55.95.97
  Email: angel.martinez@urv.net