|
|
||
| University Home Page > Higher Education Portfolio > School of BSSH |
|
|
Semester 2 2008
Unit HN521 Sociology of HealthThis unit is an introduction to the sociology of health. It considers the social aspect of holistic models of health and illness; the social construction of health and illness in relation to gender, age, ethnicity, disability and institutions, incorporating an appreciation of illness as metaphor and body discipline. It also covers the structured inequality of health distribution along class, gender and ethnic dimensions and explanations for these. Lectures for Unit HN520 are available either as a direct mp3 soundfile download or a podcast.
Download files can be listened to directly by just 'clicking' on the file you
want to hear and it will start to play. Or you can use any of the following; Web Browser, Windows Media Player or Real Player. Also the files can be copied by
'right clicking' on the file and saving it to a disk or USB Drive. The file can then be listened to on a home
PC or most DVD players.
Podcasting is the method of distributing multimedia files, such as audio programs or in this case lectures, over the Internet using the RSS format for playback on mobile devices and personal computers. To Subscribe to the Lectures via podcasting then copy and
paste the following address into your podcast reader:
Browsers such as
Mozilla Firefox,
Safari,
Opera and Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 have integrated support for RSS
feeds. In order to access the lectures on an RSS enabled browser simply click
the link below: Download podcasting software such as iTunes, Juice or alternate podcasting software. Most applications operate on Mac, PC or Linux. All are free. Once you have set up and familiarised yourself with the software, then copy & paste the subscription URL listed above into your podcasting program.
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||