MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY - CULTURE, HEALTH, AND HEALING

Catalog description

An introduction to the cross-cultural study of illness and healing practices. Explores the cultural, historical, political, and economic shaping of illness and examines variation in biomedical and healing systems. Topics covered include understandings of the body, belief systems about the nature and causation of illness, religion and ritual in a healing context, global epidemics, and inequality and health disparities.