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

dc.contributor.authorJackson, Jeanen_US
dc.coverage.temporalFall 2008en_US
dc.date.issued2008-12
dc.identifier21A.215-Fall2008
dc.identifierlocal: 21A.215
dc.identifierlocal: IMSCP-MD5-434b3dd58bf6d9ce027b0b41feca5868
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77983
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en_US
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dc.subjectethicsen_US
dc.subjectbiomedicineen_US
dc.subjectcultural systemsen_US
dc.subjectmedical practiceen_US
dc.subjecthealthen_US
dc.subjectdiseaseen_US
dc.subjectmental illnessen_US
dc.subjectleprosyen_US
dc.subjectplaceboen_US
dc.subjectpharmaceuticalsen_US
dc.subjectracismen_US
dc.subjectsexismen_US
dc.subjectmedical institutionsen_US
dc.subjectchronic illnessen_US
dc.subjectreproductive technologiesen_US
dc.subjectisolationen_US
dc.subjectinternational healthen_US
dc.title21A.215 Medical Anthropology: Culture, Society, and Ethics in Disease and Health, Fall 2008en_US
dc.title.alternativeMedical Anthropology: Culture, Society, and Ethics in Disease and Healthen_US
dc.typeLearning Object
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Anthropology Program
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics


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