Contemporary Medical Anthropology

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Contemporary Medical Anthropology This advanced seminar in medical anthropology addresses contemporary issues in the field of medical anthropology through theoretical and ethnographic texts. Topics span a wide range of studies in medical anthropology and may include such issues as the social production of health and illness, medical pluralism, discourses of mental health, the practice of complementary and alternative medicine, health disparities, the political economy of infectious disease, race and biological variation in biomedicine, and implementing biocultural perspectives. Crosslisted with: ANTH 546 .