ANTH G5563 - Medicine and Society

Institution:

University of Oklahoma Norman Campus

Subject:

ANTH-Anthropology

Description:

Prerequisite: graduate standing. Current theoretical concerns in medical anthropology examined through investigations of six topical areas: representations of sickness, medicine and social control, medical pluralism and ethnomedicine, the politics of reproduction, transcultural psychiatry, and the political economy of health care. Emphasis is on the social construction of the experience of sickness and the health ramifications of sociopolitical processes. (Irreg.)

Credits:

6.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.ou.edu

Phone Number:

(405) 325-0311

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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