Culture, Illness, and Healing ((4 Credits))

Catalog description

Jobs in health care and other sectors frequently call for health professionals with knowledge of and experience with "cultural diversity". Yet, the meanings of culture, face, and what constitutes a cultural group debated and contested across disciplines. How might understandings of culture as it is lived sharpen our insights? What does culture have to do with health, race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic position, and standings of living? How do people define and experience health, illness, and healing in diverse cultural groups, vulnerable communities, villages, families, and individuals in and beyond clinical settings? Why does it matter? This course meets the Community and Human Services Area of Study guidelines for Diversity.