ANTH 5350 - Medical Anthropology

Credits: 3
Max Credit: 3

Understandings of health and illness vary widely. Taking a comparative historical approach, this class examines how an individual’s interactions with sociocultural and physical environments influence the experiences of health and illness. Topics include symbolic healing, biomedicine as a cultural system, disease and international development, and the global politics of AIDS and other pandemics.

Prerequisite: ANTH 1200 or SOC 1000.
Dual Listed ANTH 4350.