ANTH 336 - Culture and Healing

Exploration of the meanings of health, disease and modes of healing from a cross-cultural perspective. Changes in disease and mortality in relation to changes in socialstructure. Development of modern scientific medicine, professionalization, and the hospital system; critiques and alternative therapeutics; contemporary dilemmas and prospects of globalization. Cross-listed with SOCL 336.5

Academic Level: Undergraduate
Instructional Method: Lecture
School: College of Arts & Sciences