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

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:
July 5, 2017
Author:
Jean Jackson, MIT Anthropology Department  
Submitter:
Barbra Bied Sperling
Primary Audience:
College General Ed, College Lower Division
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English
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