Anthropology
ANTH 3441: Medical Anthropology
Seminar - 4 credits
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- Examines core concepts of medicine as a cultural system, then moves to anthropology of the body as it has been understood and shaped within healing systems.
- Medical anthropology is a subfield of anthropology that uses the four-field approach to examine cultural concepts and experiences of health, illness, treatment, and power cross-culturally.
- Emphasizes history and construction of biomedicine.
- Surveys traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurvedic medicine, Voudon, Mayan curanderos, and other folk healing systems around the world.
- Explores medical pluralism, the common practice of seeking out and utilizing more than one therapeutic treatment style at one time; structural violence; and how healing systems interact with broader political and social systems globally.
Examines core concepts of medicine as a cultural system, then moves to anthropology of the body as it has been understood and shaped within healing systems. Show more.