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21A.215 Medical Anthropology: Culture, Society, and Ethics in Disease and Health, Fall 2008

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Jackson, Jean
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Medical Anthropology: Culture, Society, and Ethics in Disease and Health
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Abstract
This course looks at medicine from a cross-cultural perspective, focusing on the human, as opposed to biological, side of things. Students learn how to analyze various kinds of medical practice as cultural systems. Particular emphasis is placed on Western (bio-) medicine; students examine how biomedicine constructs disease, health, body, and mind, and how it articulates with other institutions, national and international.
Date issued
2008-12
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77983
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Anthropology Program; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
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21A.215-Fall2008
local: 21A.215
local: IMSCP-MD5-434b3dd58bf6d9ce027b0b41feca5868
Keywords
ethics, biomedicine, cultural systems, medical practice, health, disease, mental illness, leprosy, placebo, pharmaceuticals, racism, sexism, medical institutions, chronic illness, reproductive technologies, isolation, international health

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