ANT205H1: Medical Anthropology: Sociocultural Perspectives on Illness, Medicine and Care

24L/11T

Introduction to medical anthropology with a focus on questions, methods, and insights from sociocultural anthropology. Explores the relationships among culture, society, and medicine with special attention to power, inequality, and globalization. Examples from many parts of the world, addressing biomedicine as well as other healing systems.

Social Science
Society and its Institutions (3)