Cross-Cultural Pers. on Health

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Throughout this course, we will engage with key theoretical frameworks, concepts, and case studies in medical anthropology to examine the multiple forces that shape health conditions and the ways people think about and act upon their own health and illness. We will examine health and healing from a cross-cultural perspective. This will include a focus on some of the complicated political, economic, cultural, and social forces that shape disease patterns, illness experiences, and health outcomes. We will give special attention to the ethics of access to quality healthcare.