Anthropology and Public Health.

Catalog description

Semester course; 3 lecture hours (delivered online, face-to-face or hybrid). 3 credits. Enrollment is restricted to doctoral or M.P.H. students or by permission of the instructor. Provides students with an advanced introduction to anthropology as a means for exploring public health. Through ethnographic case studies (articles, books and films), the course examines cultural dimensions of illness experience and diverse models of healing and treatment, paying particular attention to political, economic, spiritual and other cultural factors that influence health, treatment and health behaviors. Students will be asked to think critically about the ways that anthropological methods can contribute to public health practice.