ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL HEALTH

This course will introduce you to key concepts and debates in the anthropology of medicine and global health, and aims to develop critical thinking informed by...

Anthropological Perspectives on Global Health (GLBH0007)

This course will introduce you to key concepts and debates in the anthropology of medicine and global health, and aims to develop critical thinking informed by anthropological analyses and methods.

We will consider questions such as:

- What does it mean to be ill and healthy in different societies?

- How do concepts of the body, sickness and health in different cultures influence health behaviour?

- How can we document and explain the political and economic determinants of health and illness through ethnography?

- How can anthropology inform global health policy and programmes?

At the end of this course students will be able to:

- Critically analyse global health problems and circumstances using anthropological concepts and methods

- Employ ethnographic evidence to support or challenge key arguments in global health

The module is open to students on the MSc/PG Dip and iBSc Global Health and Development, other UCL MSc/PG Dip and undergraduate students, affiliate, taster and short course students.

You will be taught in interactive lectures and seminars. Moodle will be used as an information portal and a source for reading materials. You are expected to complete the required reading, listening or viewing assigned for each week and to participate in discussions that take place in lectures and small groups.

Selected reading list:

Good BJ (Ed.), Fischer MJM (Ed.), Willen SE (Ed.), DelVecchio Good M-J (Ed.). (2010) A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities. Wiley-Blackwell
	Singer M & Erickson PI. (2011) A Companion to Medical Anthropology. Blackwell
	Biehl J and Petryna A. (2013) When people come first: critical studies in global health Princeton University Press
	Hahn, R, & Inhorn, M. (2009) Anthropology and Public Health: Bridging Cultures and Societies. Oxford. Oxford University Press.
Lock, M. & Nguyen, V.K. (2010) The Anthropology of Biomedicine. University of California Press.