ANTH 302. New Horizons in Medical Anthropology.
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ANTH 302
New Horizons in Medical Anthropology.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
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.
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