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Sep 07, 2024
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ANTH 355 - Medical Anthropology: Culture, Health, and Healing Upper Division
Prerequisites ANTH 101 or ANTH 105 or ANTH 107
Medical anthropology explores the interaction between health, culture, and disease, emphasizing the importance of understanding issues of health and sickness cross- culturally. Medical anthropologists also look at the roles of healthcare professionals, patients, and medical settings addressing the relationships between health care systems, and political and economic systems. This class is ideal for anthropology students as well as pre-med and pre-health students interested in learning about how culture and structures of power and inequality come to shape the ways people practice medicine and experience illness and the body.
Repeatable Yes
Additional Notes Previous course number: ANTH 118
Course credits: 4
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