ANTH3530-01.Culture, Illness and Health.F13.Geurts,Kathryn

Kathryn Geurts

Document Type

Syllabi

School

CLA

Department

ANTH

Course Subject

ANTH

Course Number

3530

Course Section

01

Course Title

Culture, Illness and Health

Academic Term and Year

Fall 2013

Credits

4.00

Hamline Plan Letter

O, W

Area of Study

ANTH, GLOB, SOCJ

Course Description

Goals: To introduce students to the subdiscipline of medical anthropology, and to study health, illness and healing from a cross-cultural perspective. Content: The study of affliction and healing in non-Western as well as Western societies; ways in which the social construction of well-being affects therapy managing strategies across a range of human societies; analysis of how power is utilized to privilege some sectors and deprive other groups of basic standards of community health; and the meaning of signs of sickness and suffering as a way of interpreting their relationship to broader social themes including technology, ritual, and religion. The course is designed to provide students with a framework for understanding the historical and social construction of healing practices and beliefs. Taught: Alternate years. Prerequisites: Previous coursework in anthropology or the social sciences.

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