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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| description | 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 biomedicine constructs disease, health, body, and mind, and how it articulates with other institutions, national and international. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/779832019-09-12T23:44:09Z 21A.215 Medical Anthropology: Culture, Society, and Ethics in Disease and Health, Fall 2008 Medical Anthropology: Culture, Society, and Ethics in Disease and Health Jackson, Jean ethics biomedicine cultural systems medical practice health disease mental illness leprosy placebo pharmaceuticals racism sexism medical institutions chronic illness reproductive technologies isolation international health 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 biomedicine constructs disease, health, body, and mind, and how it articulates with other institutions, national and international. 2008-12 21A.215-Fall2008 local: 21A.215 local: IMSCP-MD5-434b3dd58bf6d9ce027b0b41feca5868 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77983 en-US Usage Restrictions: This site (c) Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2013. Content within individual courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is providing this Work (as defined below) under the terms of this Creative Commons public license ("CCPL" or "license") unless otherwise noted. The Work is protected by copyright and/or other applicable law. Any use of the work other than as authorized under this license is prohibited. By exercising any of the rights to the Work provided here, You (as defined below) accept and agree to be bound by the terms of this license. The Licensor, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, grants You the rights contained here in consideration of Your acceptance of such terms and conditions. text/html Fall 2008 |
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