ANT 211 - SGA: Medical Anthropology

Institution:

University of New England

Subject:

Anthropology

Description:

This course provides an overview of the field of medical anthropology. It focuses on the social, cultural, political, and economic dimensions of health, illness, and healing. Relying on practices, illness behaviors, and concepts of the body are culturally constructed and mediated. The course examines how cultural ideas about health and medicine shape people¿s experience, including physical experiences such as pain or suffering. We will apply anthropological theories and methods to understand the cultural meaning assigned to disease, reproduction, sexuality, and bodily processes. Topics covered by this course include cultural interpretations and narrative representations of sickness, healing, and the body; belief, ritual, and ethnomedicine; social suffering; illness and inequality; medicalization; cultural dimensions of perceptions of the body and illness in Western societies; cultural dimensions of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic; and policies of global health.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.une.edu/

Phone Number:

(207) 283-0171

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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