This unit provides a critical overview of health and illness in selected ethnographic sites across the globe. It discusses the biomedical tradition from anthropological/sociological, and cross-cultural perspectives. The activities and assessments associated with the unit develop generic and transferable skills as well as to increase knowledge of the topics covered which include gender, class, ethnic and class inequities in health; economic and technological imperatives in health care; the role of public health and health promotion; and health care ethics; Western conceptions of illness, healing, and the body and alternative notions of morality, rationality, kinship, gender and sexuality.... -- Course Website
Prerequisites: any Level 2 Anthropology unit