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ANTY 426.01: Culture, Health & Healing

Year: 2013
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, emotional, 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 will examine various theories, methods, and frameworks in order to explore how health, illness, and healing are conceptualized and experienced in different cultures.Topics will include: shamanism, medical ecology, cultural and political ecologies of disease, medical systems as cultural systems, global health issues, mental illness, and sociocultural definitions of health and illness.After successfully completing this course the student should be able to: 1) Describe the interrelationships between human biological and sociocultural systems and diseases in several different sociocultural settings; * Armelagos, Health and Disease (p.15-26) * McKeown, Determinants o f Health (p.27-33) Eaton, Konner & Shostak, Stone Agers in the Fast Lane Fabrega, Earliest Phases in the Evolution o f Sickness and Healing Week 4/Sep 17 -Medical & Political Ecologies of Health; Theories of Illness Etiology * Brown, Cultural Adaptations (p.34-49) * Farmer, Social Inequalities (p.50-58) * Singer, Why is it Easier?(p.59-66) * Foster, Disease Etiologies (p.67-76) Erickson, What Causes Disease?Week 5/Sep 24 -Anthropological Theories of Healing * Konner, Transcendental Medication (p.77-80) * Blumhagen, White Coat (p.81-87) * Levi-Strauss, The Sorcerer's Magic (p.128-138) *
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W831781780
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