ANTH 260 : MEDICINE, CULTURE, & SOCIETY (SD)

This course examines the cultural and social influences on medicine, health, and healing. Specific topics include the influence of disease on human history, social determinants of health, the medicalization of life, the interrelationships of health and various social institutions, health care systems, ethnomedicine, the relationship between culture and Western biomedicine, social suffering and stigma, and patient-centered approaches.

Cross-listed with SOC 260