ANTH5025 Global Health
This course studies health and illness beliefs and practices in different societies around the world. Students not only examine what individuals do, whom they consult and where they go when they get sick, but how people make sense of illness and misfortune in their world. Class readings and discussions focus on: concepts of health and illness, healer-patient interactions, ritual healing, pain, cross cultural psychiatry, medical pluralism and global health issues such as AIDS.