Anthropology
ANTH 344 Medical Anthropology (4)
This course introduces students to medical anthropology. By exploring human health, sickness and healing from diverse theoretical and cross-cultural perspectives, students will learn how different peoples around the world conceptualize the human body, explain the causes of disease, manage patients and healers, contend with stress, and articulate the meaning and origin of social suffering. The course has a service learning component.
- General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Social Sciences
- Prerequisite: One course in Anthropology and/or consent of instructor
- Offering: Annually
- Instructor: Millen