Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: This course provides an introduction to the field of medical anthropology -the study of human health, disease and curing from a cross-cultural, historical, archeological, and evolutionary perspective.Societies throughout the world recognize certain bodily, em otional, and mental conditions as undesirable and in need of change.Individual and societal definitions of disease and responses to illness are shaped by biological characteristics, social dynamics, cultural values, and collective expectations.In this course we w ill examine various theories, methods, and fram eworks in order to explore how health, illness, and healing are conceptualized and experienced in different cultures.Topics w ill include: shamanism, medical ecology, cultural and political ecologies o f disease, medical systems as cultural systems, global health issues, mental illness, and sociocultural definitions of health and illness.
Source: The Mathematics Enthusiast
Author: Quintero, Gilbert A.
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7045154604