Mar 29, 2024  
2019-20 University Catalog 
    
2019-20 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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ANTH 3374 - Health, Healing, and Culture


1 Course Unit(s)
Medical anthropology is a subfield of anthropology concerned with health and healing systems crossculturally. This course examines cultural conceptions of disease, illness, and healing as they vary across cultures. Topics surveyed include the role of healers in culture, biomedicine as a cultural system, mental illness, childbirth and reproduction, and non-Western medical traditions.

General Education Requirement(s): IV; V
Prerequisite(s): FYS 1104  
Corequisite(s): None
Pre/Corequisite(s): None



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