SS 312 - Introduction to Medical Anthropology

Credit(s): 3.00

This course includes the study of health, illness and healing from a cross-cultural perspective. Medical anthropology is a multi-faceted subject, offering a critical and applicable lens to better understand health for all health-related disciplines and circumstances. The course examines aspects of health and illness, drawing from theoretical, evidence-based, and ethnographic perspectives to develop a more critical understanding; and highlights how health, illness and healing practices are culturally constructed, mediated, and inextricably linked.