Culture, Health and Illness

Catalog description

How do people experience health and illness across different social and cultural contexts? This course examines how our experiences of disease are structured by factors such as access to care, social and cultural beliefs and values, local and global knowledges, availability of medicines and distribution of resources. We look at how these experiences intersect with wider structures of power and inequality. Students interested in pursuing careers in health and medicine gain skills in interpersonal/intercultural communication, empathy, and problem solving. GCP Coding : (PNW) (ETH).