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2018-2019 Graduate Catalog 
    
2018-2019 Graduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

ANTH 44500 - Medical Anthropology


An examination of the cross-cultural properties of disease and curing. Focus on investigations into the ideology and meaning of illness, the relationship between patient and healer, and how responsibility for illness is assigned. Medical anthropology is concerned with knowledge about sociocultural contexts of disease and healing and with how such knowledge might inform the management of our own health problems.

Cr. 3.
Dual Level Course
Undergraduate Level, Eligible for Graduate Credit