Anthropology of Healing

3 credits · Graduate School

(Also listed as ANTH 3141) Ritual, symbols, belief, and emotion in health, illness, and therapeutic processes. Practices and politics of healing in western and non-western societies, including shamanism, faith healing, ecstatic religious experience, alternative medicine, and biomedicine. Mind-body interactions, medical pluralism, relations between patients and healers, and implications for improving medical care. No credit for students who have earned credit for 3141. [3]