The course has the following specific educational objectives and learning outcomes:
- Strengthen understanding of the impact of social capital and proximity networks in the prevention and mitigation of health risks;
- Improve critical thinking skills with regard to the processes of creating and disseminating technological and scientific innovations that have a direct impact on health;
- Provide an initial introduction to the concept of “intersectionality” in understanding inequalities: social class, space, health.
Oral lessons.
The course programme is structured in five sessions:
- Introduction to the fundamental theoretical frameworks of environmental and health sociology;
- Social capital and environmental risk: heat waves in Chicago;
- Mortality risk and social classes: socio-health inequalities in Turin and Genoa;
- Social modelling of biotechnological innovations: the case of protein vaccines against Covid-19;
- Review and discussion of the main topics covered in previous lessons.
Klinenberg E. (1999) - Denaturalizing disaster: A social autopsy of the 1995 Chicago heat wave. Theory and Society, 28: 239-295. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006995507723
Cardano M., Costa G., Demaria M. (2004) - Social mobility and health in the Turin longitudinal study. Social Science & Medicine, 58. DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(03)00354-X
Marciano, C. The social shaping of biotechnological innovation. The case of Covid-19 protein vaccine in Cuba and the US. BioSocieties 20, 271–299 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-024-00341-2
CLAUDIO MARCIANO (President and Coordinator of Integrated Course)
04th March.
The timetable for this course is available here: EasyAcademy
