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Jun 28, 2024
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2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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AN 282 Introduction to Medical Anthropology
(4 Credits)
This course provides an introductory overview of how medical anthropology has contributed to an understanding of the cultural embeddedness of knowledge and practice around health, illness, disease, and healing. The course reviews the central anthropological schools of thought (ecological, interpretive, and critical medical anthropology) in the ethnographic examination of disease causality, the dynamics of healers’ roles, and health disparities among individuals at the local level. An emphasis of the course is familiarizing students with the actual research processes associated with participant observation, mostly qualitative, that anthropologists utilize in creating ethnographic monographs.
Prerequisite: AN 120 or PBH 110 or PBH 120 or permission of the instructor
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