Academic Calendar 2015/2016 - Medical Anthropology

ANTR 3026  Medical Anthropology

Hours:

Three hours of lecture per week for one term.

Credits:

3

Description:

This course examines cross-cultural approaches to health, illness, and healing. Topics covered in this course may include: theories of health and wellness, comparative study of medical systems, social roots of disease, social and symbolic construction and representation of the body, and medical pluralism.