Anthropology
310
(offered yearly) |
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Culture and the
Individual - (Identical to SOC 310). Cultural
and psychological dimensions of human development and human behavior. |
Anthropology
536A
(offered yearly)
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Anthropology of the
Body, Health and Illness Anthropology of
the body health risk and illness; ethnophysiology and pathology; indigenous ideas about
preventative and promotive health; folk dietetics; social labeling and the politics of
responsibility. Draws upon cross-cultural ethnographic research and consideration of
popular American health culture. |
Anthropology
536B
(offered bi-yearly)
Prerequisite: 536A |
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Ethnomedicine Indigenous medical systems and healing traditions, regional health
arenas and health care seeking patterns, healing efficacy |
Anthropology
571A
(offered bi-yearly)
Prerequisite: 536A |
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Applied Medical
Anthropology in Western Contexts I This
intensive course covers items ranging from the anthropology of risk and diagnostic testing
to medicalizations and the sick role, illness narratives to doctor-patient communication,
health inequality and social epidemiology to the political economy of the American health
care system and more. |
Anthropology
675A/B
(Full year course) |
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Anthropology and
International Health
This intensive course on the anthropology of health and development is problem
based and theme driven. Issues covered include child survival, maternal health,
reproductive and sexual health, water borne diseases, vector borne diseases and political
ecology, diseases of modernization, lifestyle diseases, pharmaceutical behavior, the
household production of health, tobacco or health, family planning, demographic health and
health care transition. |
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