ANTH 635 - Ethnomed and Ethnopsychiatry

Institution:

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Subject:

ANTH-Anthropology

Description:

Ethnomedicine and Ethnopsychiatry Approaches and contributions of anthropology to study of health, sickness, and healing. Physical environment and human adaptations as key determinants of health systems; culturally defined concepts of sickness, health, and healing; healing as social, as well as physiological, activity.Topics may include life stages, medical knowledge among different human groups, impact of culture contact on medical systems, ecological balance and population control, cultural definitions and treatment of abnormal behavior, healers, health and supernatural, social roles of sick, and illness and social control.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.uab.edu

Phone Number:

(205) 934-4011

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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