Module Content

This course will introduce Medical Anthropology, which is the subfield of anthropology concerned with how human societies respond to and shape the experiences of health, illness, and recovery. These human responses include uniquely evolved systems of diagnosis and therapeutic intervention based on diverse cultural ideologies, etiological assumptions, and views of the universe. Medical anthropology also studies cultural definitions of health, well-being and “the normal” and includes critical analysis of the social relations, ideologies, and technologies that help constitute modern biomedical systems. Whereas the biomedical sciences increasingly reduce health and illness to biology, medical anthropology emphasizes the influence of social and political structures, cultural interpretations and norms, inequality, ecological contexts, and human relationships as they shape local clinical realities.

Delivery Method

One 2 hour lecture and one 2 hour seminar per week.

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