Description
Module Content
This course will introduce Medical Anthropology, which is the subfield of anthropology concerned with how human societies respond to and shape the experiences of health, illness, and recovery. These human responses include uniquely evolved systems of diagnosis and therapeutic intervention based on diverse cultural ideologies, etiological assumptions, and views of the universe. Medical anthropology also studies cultural definitions of health, well-being and “the normal” and includes critical analysis of the social relations, ideologies, and technologies that help constitute modern biomedical systems. Medical anthropology emphasizes the influence of social and political structures, cultural interpretations and norms, inequality, ecological contexts, and human relationships as they shape health, illness, and local clinical realities.
Delivery Method
One 2 hour lecture and one 2 hour seminar per week.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
Last updated
This module description was last updated on 19th August 2024.