Oct 06, 2024  
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

ANTH 626 - Medical Anthropology


Credits 3

Overview of medical anthropology, covering such topics as disease and human evolution, ecology of disease, and culture-centered approaches in the field, including ethnomedicine (cross-cultural conceptions of health and illness), healers in global perspective, and medicine practiced in clinical and public health settings in societies around the world. Crosslisted with ANTH 426. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.



Prerequisites
Graduate standing.