CEAN 0906 - Medicine and Society

Institution:

Brown University

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Description:

This course challenges students to explore the relationships between medicine and its social, cultural, and political dimensions. Students will be introduced to the ideas and methods of medical anthropology, a tradition of cultural anthropology that uses ideas and behaviors of health and disease as lenses onto society. From organ transplants to refugee medical care, the course tracks pressing health issues from a social and cultural perspective to shed light on how health and disease are central to the ways we think and act in everyday life.

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0.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.brown.edu

Phone Number:

(401) 863-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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