ANTH 44500 - Medical Anthropology

An examination of health, disease, medicine and curing in a cross-cultural perspective. 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 the socio-cultural contexts of disease and healing, and with how such knowledge might inform the management of our own health problems.

Cr. 3.
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