Overview
Description
Application of anthropological theory and methods to human health, illness, and healing. A course designed for those interested in cross-cultural issues of health and diversity in health care.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring - Even Years
Terms
spring
Related Courses
Cross Listed With ANTH 626Cross Listed With CHS 626
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- understand basic terms and concepts in the field of medical anthropology and apply the anthropological perspective to issues of public health.
- understand basic ethical principles in human subject research and to know the basic rules that govern Institutional Review Boards.
- appreciate that health and explanatory models of illness and medical systems are cultural constructions.
- understand basic theoretical approaches and research methods in medical anthropology and to appreciate that health problems and questions can be investigated from a range of theoretical approaches.
- elucidate essential components of medical systems and identify similarities and differences in such systems cross-culturally.
- appreciate the social and cultural implications of disease/illness along with biological issues.