ANTH 403 Health, Healing, and the Body
This course takes a deep dive beyond the introductory level to key concepts, theories, and current issues surrounding the role of culture in health and disease. Students will examine such diverse topics as how healers heal, what counts as mental illness in different cultures, the role of belief in healing and dying, the role of gender and race in access to resources and rates of disease, how different cultures view disease causation and diagnosis, and the way in which our own medical system is culturally shaped. We wrap things up by answering the question of “who cares about all of this?” by investigating some of the ways this knowledge can be applied in the “real world”. If the course is taken for undergraduate credit, it cannot be used for graduate credit.
Credits
4