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Title 1 - Cultural Anthropology (Cozzi-Nigris, pages 1-21) definition and differentiation with other disciplines of Human Sciences.
Title 2- Culture (Cozzi / Nigris, pp. 25-45). - The concept of culture is an anthropological definition.
- Cultural dynamics (cultural transmission and inculturation).
-Relativism culture / Universalism and ethnocentrism.- Cultural Nursing: definition and differentiation.
Title 3 - The other (Siniscalchi, pages 23-30) - Anthropological definition.
-Waves, foreigners, immigrants: the perception of the "other".
Title 4- Health and disease (Cozzi / Nigris, pp. 159- 186).
- Medical anthropology: illness and cultural factors.
-Health / illness: which definitions and which limits (the risks of medicalization)
- Body, health and illness: metaphors and representations
-Interpretation approach according to B. Good
- Illness in "other" contexts.
Title 5 -Color, Symptom and Culture 8Cozzi / Nigris, pp. 187 - 223)
-The construction of pain from the point of view perceptive
- Color and cultural construction - existential
-The language of pain (empirical model and medical-social practices)
- Color and communication in the hospital context
- Chronic pain and its representations
- Psychic pain and the impossibility of objectification
- Culture color: interpretative differences of the symptom
- Placebo effect: a culturally determined symbolic phenomenon
Title 6-Rite and symbol (Cozzi / Nigris, pages 109-157)
- General definition
- Rites of passage / therapeutic
- Cultural meaning of death: funeral rites
-The representation of death in the West
Title 7- Birth and death: border areas (Siniscalchi, pages 111-133)
- Death in the hospital context. anthropological analysis
-The nursing look towards the dying (the solitude of the dying)
- Palliative care and ethical debate on euthanasia
-The birth and the birth
Title 8 - Hygiene, nutrition. body (Siniscalchi, pages 135-158, Cozzi / Nigris, pages 333-344)
- Food: symbolic value or primary need?
-The symbolic meaning of hygienic care
- The body between signification and health practices: identity ignored.