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5.00 Credits
Taylor Explores relations between medical and social categories: how social differences become medicalized; how medical conditions become associated with stigmatized social groups; and how categories become sources of identity and bases for political action. Considers classifications (race, gender, sexuality, disability) and how each has shaped and/or been shaped by medical science/practice.
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5.00 Credits
Introduction to medical anthropology. Explores the relationships among culture, society, and medicine. Examples from Western medicine as well as from other medical systems, incorporating both interpretive and critical approaches. Offered: jointly with HSERV 475.
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5.00 Credits
Explores the relationship between the body and society, with emphasis on the role of medicine as a mediator between them. Case study material, primarily from contemporary biomedicine, as well as critical, postmodern, and feminist approaches to the body introduced within a general comparative and anthropological framework.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the pragmatic and theoretical dilemmas of current biomedical practice with emphasis on social and cultural context. Case studies in technological intervention, risk management, and other healthrelated issues used to explore connections among patients’ experiences, medical practices, and the contemporary social context.
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5.00 Credits
Rhodes Historical, theoretical, and ethnographic perspectives on the study of total institutions, with an emphasis on prisons and psychiatric facilities. Includes issues of subjection and subjectivity, institutional social dynamics, and social justice concerns.
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3.00 - 5.00 Credits
Chapman, Rhodes, Taylor Explores theoretical and ethnographic advanced topics in medical anthropology.
Prerequisite:
permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Museum history, philosophy, and basic operations, including organization, income, collection management, conservation, exhibition, security, education, research, and ethics. Offered: jointly with MUSEUM 480.
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5.00 Credits
No course description available.
Prerequisite:
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5.00 Credits
No course description available.
Prerequisite:
Separate File
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5.00 Credits
Twine Examines how motherhood is culturally constituted, regulated, and managed within various ideological and technological milieus. Uses ethnographies from anthropology and case studies from feminist legal theory. Topics include slave mothers, surrogate mothers, lesbian mothers, transracial mothers, co-mothers, teen mothers. Offered: jointly with WOMEN 458.
Prerequisite:
WOMEN 200
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