Medical Anth:Illness & Healing
Durham
Liberal Arts :: Anthropology
Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2020 - Full Term (01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Term: Spring 2020 - Full Term (01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:
35
CRN: 54991
CRN: 54991
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.
Equivalent(s): ANTH 610W
Only listed campus in section: Durham
Instructors: STAFF
Times & Locations
Start Date | End Date | Days | Time | Location |
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1/21/2020 | 5/4/2020 | TR | 2:10pm - 3:30pm | HS 202 |
Additional Course Details:
This course is not writing intensive.
Booklist
Two required books which are also both free on the UNH Library catalog:
(1) Golomski, Casey. 2018. Funeral Culture: AIDS, Work and Culture Change in an African Kingdom. Indiana University Press.
(2) Brijnath, Bianca. 2014. Unforgotten: Love and the Culture of Dementia Care in India. New York: Berghahn.