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Lecture Notes

LEC # TOPICS NOTES
1 Introduction to Basic Issues (PDF)
2 Irrational Beliefs in Disease Causation and Treatment (PDF)
3 Irrational Beliefs in Disease Causation and Treatment II (PDF)
4 Symbolic Healing and Harming (PDF)
5 Cultural Construction of Disease (PDF)
6 Cross-Cultural Perspectives I (PDF)
7 Cross-Cultural Perspectives II (PDF)
8 Cross-Cultural Perspectives III (PDF)
9 Current Theoretical Issues I (PDF)
10 Meaning, Medicine and Illness (PDF)
11 The Institution of Medicine I (PDF)
12 The Institution of Medicine III (PDF)
13 The Institution of Medicine V (PDF)
14 The Institution(s) of Medicine VI
Video: "The Search for Satan"
(PDF)
15 The Institution of Medicine VII (PDF)
16 Health, Disease and Healing (PDF)
17 International Health & Gender (PDF)