Medical Anthropology

3 credits · Undergraduate

(3 hrs Lecture) Medical anthropology is a subfield of anthropology. It informs our understandings of the experiences and distribution of health, the prevention and the treatment of the sick in different cultural groups and the role of pluralistic medical systems. Critical health disparities between marginalized populations in developed countries as well as between developing and developed countries are increasingly prevalent and complex in nature. This course looks at ethnomedicine, disease ecology and Indigenous perspectives on health and illness. Cross-listed: BANT-2119(3). Restrictions: Students may not hold credit for this course and BANT-2119. Requisite Courses: ANTH-1001(6), ANTH-1002(3) or ANTH-1005(3) or permission of the instructor [prerequisite(s)].