Medicine and Body in East Asia

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This seminar explores medicine and healing, their related practices, and notions of health and the body as they reflect and constitute meaning for Asians and their diaspora. The course covers a range of themes including theoretical foundations of healing practices in the present and earlier periods; conceptions of illness and health; public health and medical services and their intersections with race, gender, class, and empire; bodily discipline and culture; and global health and markets. Knowledge of an Asian language is not required.