ANTH 4200 - Health, Healing and Culture: Medical Anthropology

3 hours

Contemporary medical anthropology, with a focus on the biocultural basis of health and global sociocultural variations in illness and healing. Study of comparative health systems, political-economic and ethical issues in health and care, health professions, and patients’ views of illness, and cross-cultural definitions and understandings of disease, illness and cure.

Prerequisite(s): None.