ANTH108

This course introduces students to medical anthropology, an interdisciplinary approach exploring how humans differently define and experience life, death, illness, wellness, health, sex, and pain throughout the world and over time. The course begins with classic texts in medical anthropology and ethnomedicine and shifts to more contemporary work in critical medical anthropology. There is a special focus in the course on global inequalities in health and medicine, on cross-cultural perspectives on pain and suffering, and on understanding biomedicine as a cultural system.