ANTH-E 445 SEMINAR IN MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY (3 CR.)
This advanced seminar in medical anthropology focuses on theoretical approaches to understanding the body and notions of health, illness, and diseases across cultures. Concentrates on interpretive and critical (political economy) approaches to issues of health, and includes critical study of Western biomedicine.
1 classes found
Spring 2024
Component | Credits | Class | Status | Time | Day | Facility | Instructor |
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LEC | 3 | 30494 | Closed | 1:15 p.m.–2:30 p.m. | TR | LH 112 | Phillips S |
Regular Academic Session / In Person
LEC 30494: Total Seats: 15 / Available: 0 / Waitlisted: 0
Lecture (LEC)
- COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inq
- COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit
- Above class meets with REEI-R 300
Experiences of health, ¿dis-ease,¿ and medicine are profoundly shaped by culture, transnational flows of people, ideas, and resources, histories of colonialism and structural inequalities, and the development of new technologies. Topics to be covered in this course, which is particularly useful for students pursuing careers in the health care professions, include the following, and more: the politics and poetics of different healing practices; medical knowledge production and the advantages and drawbacks of contemporary, high-tech biomedicine; gendered aspects of health; political and moral economies of health in the global context; the role of pharmaceuticals in defining who we are; queer/crip studies; care studies; and the anthropology of addictions. Additionally, the seminar includes a particular focus on health and medicine in the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe. Students will have the opportunity to add their own topics of interest to the syllabus.