21A.215 Medical Anthropology: Culture, Society, and Ethics in Disease and Health, Fall 2008
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Author(s)
Jackson, Jean
Alternative Title
Medical Anthropology: Culture, Society, and Ethics in Disease and Health
Date Issued
December 2008
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.
Subjects
ethics
biomedicine
cultural systems
medical practice
health
disease
mental illness
leprosy
placebo
pharmaceuticals
racism
sexism
medical institutions
chronic illness
reproductive technologies
isolation
international health
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Anthropology Program
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
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