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

Jackson, Jean

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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.

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2008-12

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77983

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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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