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Culture, Disease, & Healing

Course Overview

Date / Time Location Credits Minimium Tuition*
9/3/24 - 12/13/24
TBA
McCormack M01-0410 3 $1984 (guest students)
Date
9/3/24 - 12/13/24
Time
TBA
Location
McCormack M01-0410
Credits
3
Min. Tuition*
$1984 (guest students)

Description

Human adaptations to disease and illness in prehistory and history, and across cultures. Medical systems considered as social and cultural systems related to social structure, religion, economics, and power. Topics include medical anthropology as a field of study, paleopathology, ecology and epidemiology of disease, theories of disease and healing, sorcery and witchcraft, public health and preventive medicine, anatomy and surgery, obstetrics and population control, pain and stress, emotional states, status and role of healers and patients.

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