MSc Biomedicine, Bioscience and Society

Full-year programme. Students must take three courses and write a dissertation as shown.

Paper

Course number and title

1

SO455 Key Issues in Biomedicine, Bioscience and Society

2

SO462 Key Methods in the Social Study of Bioscience and Biomedicine

3 & 4

Courses to the value of one full unit from the following:
AN405 The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex and Gender
AN437 Anthropology of Learning and Cognition
DV411 Population and Development: an Analytical Approach (H)
DV413 Environmental Problems, Politics and Development (H)
DV415 Global Environmental Governance (H)
DV421 HIV/AIDS and Other Emerging Health Threats (H)
EH411 Epidemics and Economic and Social History: From the Black Death to the Present *
GI405 Globalising Sexualities (H) 
GI408 Cultural Constructions of the Body (H) (n/a 08/09) 
GY420 Environmental Regulation 
LL416 Regulating New Medical Technologies 
LL465 Law and Social Theory
LL4C1 Patent Law  (n/a 08/09)
LL4D2 Intellectual Property Rights in Global Bio-Economies (H)
PH415 Philosophy and Public Policy 
SA407 Financing Health Care (H)
SA408 Health Economics (H)
SA447 Foundations of Health Policy (H)
SA427 Pharmaceutical Economics and Policies (H)
SO407 Contemporary Political Sociology: Theories and Research Strategies
SO420 Approaches to Globalisation (H)
SO425 Regulation, Risk and Economic Life
SO426 Sociological Theory Part I (H)
SO427 Sociological Theory Part II (H)
SO433 Cultural Theory (H)
SO447 Topics in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies
Up to one full course option from the approved courses offered by other departments.

4

SO499 Dissertation

Notes

* means subject to space and with the permission of the course teacher

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