Medical Anth:Illness & Healing
Durham
Liberal Arts :: Anthropology
Credits: 4.0
Term: Fall 2024 - Full Term (08/26/2024 - 12/09/2024)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Term: Fall 2024 - Full Term (08/26/2024 - 12/09/2024)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:
35
CRN: 16415
CRN: 16415
Intermediate-level introduction to medical anthropology through sociocultural and bioarchaeological approaches to describing health-related ideas and practices in cross-cultural, historical and ecological contexts. Focuses on human illness and religious experiences of disease and the end of life. Considers how suffering, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and care are shaped by: religion and ritual; symbolism and language; age, gender and sexuality; families, social movements, and governments; and the worldwide expansion of biomedical expertise and technologies.
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Instructors: Sara Withers
Times & Locations
Start Date | End Date | Days | Time | Location |
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8/26/2024 | 12/9/2024 | MW | 2:10pm - 3:30pm | HS 201 |
Booklist
There are two required books for the course:
Sherine Hamdy and Coleman Nye, Lissa: A Story about Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution (2017)
ISBN: 978-487593476
Seth Holmes, Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies (2023)
ISBN: 978-0520398634