ANTH 3346 - Medical Anthropology

3 hrs

Overview of methods and contemporary topics in medical anthropology. The linkage between culture and health is central to understanding human adaptations to a variety of environments around the world. Explores how health illness have been conceptualized and socially patterned across diverse human cultures. Processes and structures within economic systems (including poverty, political violence, and toxic waste disposal) impacting well-being are examined.
Offered: Spring of even numbered years.