Explore healing in a global context
For those with interests in health and medicine, anthropology offers a powerful lens for examining healing practices and diverse understandings of life (and death). Students examine the distribution of illness, the ethics of medicine, and the politics of the body within a global framework. this pathway through the major honors your ability to define the structural components of health, a skill that is critical to medical practice. It also eaches you how to attend to cultural differences, develops your ability to work wiht diverse populations, and provides the methodological tools for research across various dimensions of health.
One route alone the Health and Medicine Pathway:
- Sociocultureal requirement:
Anthr 1400 comparison of Cultures OR
Anthr 2245 Medicine, Culture and Society
- Archaeological requirement:
Anthr 2245 Health & Disease in the Ancient World
- Biological requirement:
Anthr 2750 Human Biology and Evolution
Anthr 3000 Intro to Anthropological Theory
Anthr 3465 Anthropology of the Body
Anthr 3620 A Global Controversy: How to Study a Human Rights Violation
- Two of the following:
Anthr 2546 South Asian Religions in Practice: The Healing Traditions
Anthr 3235 Bioarchaeology
Anthr 4246 Human Osteology
Anthr 4405 Anthropology of Conversion
Anthr 4467 Self and Subjectivity
Anthr 4673 Body/Politics/Africa
Anthr 4682 Healing & Medicine in Africa
- Eight credits of electives that could include:
Remaining 4000-level courses above;
Anthr 2920 Drugs and Social Justice;
Approved courses from other unitls.