Health and Healing in East Asia

3 Units

This course examines the illness experiences and the healing practices in East Asia. After introducing the anthropological approaches to the study of health and illness, this course will explore the practices of traditional medical knowledge, medical ethics, pandemics, HIV/AIDS, mental health, environmental health, and cosmetic surgery. By delving into the illness experiences and the healing practices in East Asia, the course will discuss issues related to medical pluralism, bioethics, political economy of health, and technologies and health. Offered as ANTH 354 and ANTH 454 . Counts as a CAS Global & Cultural Diversity course. Counts as a Human Diversity & Commonality course. Counts as a Understanding Global Perspectives course.