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	Themes
	Course Requirements
	Week 1	Anthropology of the Body From Measurement to Meaning Social Construction of the Body Body, power, and knowledge The body in consumer culture
	Week 2	Ethnophysiology Hydraulic models, machine metaphors body politics, the body as microcosm Genes and free will
	Week 3	Biopower, Gender, and Ethnic Stereotypes Science as motivated by multiple agendas Subjectification of women at the site of the body Ethnicity, the body and racism
	Week 4	Biocultural and Critical Approaches to Medical Anthropology: What is the debate: Is there common ground? Adaptation, a critical assessment The "small but healthy" debate Acculturation, health transition and diseases of development Political Ecology
	Week 5	Cultural Conceptualization of Health; Illness Models of Health - functional, experimental, Marxist Social class and health concerns Aging and Health - What is normal?, What is illness? Illness and Disease Stress
	Week 6	Cultural Perceptions of what causes illness Beyond simplistic dichotomies Etiology as ideology Vulnerability
	Week 7	Folk Dietetics Food Classification and rules governing use What do foods signify? Food and popular health culture
	Week 8	Sexuality, gender relations, health, and fertility
	Week 9	The Social Organization of: Life cycle Transitions Conception Pregnancy Childbirth Breast feeding
	Week 10	Illness Classification The Language of Illness and Social Relations Illness stories as moral discourse
	Week 11	Social Labeling of Illness Illness and Metaphor Social Stigma
	Week 12	Cultural Dimensions of Preventive and Promotive Health Behavior
	Week 13	Risk The Immune System:medicine and popular health culture
	Week 14	Health: State and Individual Responsibility "Shaping up," becoming "fit" and the embodiment of ideology Health Commodification Lifestyle