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21A.215 Medical Anthropology: Culture, Society, and Ethics in Disease and 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....
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- Material Type:
- Online Course
- Date Added to MERLOT:
- June 9, 2011
- Date Modified in MERLOT:
- November 18, 2020
- Author:
- Jean Jackson, MIT Anthropology Department
- Submitter:
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Barbra Bied Sperling
- Primary Audience:
- College General Ed, College Lower Division
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- Website
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- Language:
- English
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- No
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This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States
