Models for Health and Wellness

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This course introduces the concepts of health, healing, and wellness from a broad historical and multicultural perspective. You will investigate how changing ideas about religion, philosophy, science, and psychology have influenced our understanding of health, and how the practice of medicine continues to be affected by global, social, and economic pressures. Contemporary models of health and wellness will be illustrated by drawing upon selected writings from each major proponent, and you will undertake the development of an original model of health and wellness based on an understanding of and sensitivity to current geopolitical and multicultural issues.