ANTH 302. New Horizons in Medical Anthropology.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
Using recent ethnographies as textual material, this course will cover theoretical and methodological developments in medical anthropology since the early 1990's. Topics include a reconsideration of the relationship between culture and biology, medical pluralism revisited, globalization and health and disease, and social implications of new biomedical technologies.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ANTH 227
- Restriction: Anthropology program students.