Instructor: L. Sharp
(Enrollment limit to 40; not open to 1st year; non-anthro majors require permission of the instructor) Introduction to medical anthropology, exploring health, affliction, and healing cross-culturally. Draws from theory and methods to address critiques of biomedical, epidemiological, and other models of disease; the roles of healers in different societies; the inseparable nature of religion and healing; and different conceptions of the body and how this affects cultural conceptions of health.
