21A.215 Medical Anthropology: Culture, Society, and Ethics in Disease and Health, Fall 2008

21A.215 Medical Anthropology: Culture, Society, and Ethics in Disease and Health, Fall 2008

This course looks at medicine from a cross-cultural perspective, focusing on the human, as opposed to biological, side of things. Students learn how to analyze various kinds of medical practice as cultural systems. Particular emphasis is placed on Western (bio-) medicine; students examine how biomed...

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Main Author: Jackson, Jean
Language:en-US
Published: 2008
Subjects:
ethics
biomedicine
cultural systems
medical practice
health
disease
mental illness
leprosy
placebo
pharmaceuticals
racism
sexism
medical institutions
chronic illness
reproductive technologies
isolation
international health
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77983

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