ANTH 443 - Medical Anthropology

Description

Hours: Three hours lecture per week Prerequisites: Junior Standing and successful completion of Golden Four GE Areas (A1, A2, A3, B4) Description: This course provides a cross-cultural perspective on human health issues. Uses biological, cultural, and behavioral approaches to understanding the concepts of diseases and their treatment, ethnoscience, health, and complementary and alternative medicine placed in a global perspective.

Meeting Information

Info current as 12/20/2024
Days Times Room Meeting Dates Instructor
ARR Online 1/23/2021 - 5/28/2021 Wallace Zane

Status: Open
Class Number: 1295
Session: Regular Academic Session
Units: 3.00
Class Components: Lecture
Career: Undergraduate
Dates: 1/23/2021 - 5/28/2021
Grading: Student Option

Class Availability

Information below is 24 hours old.
Enrollment Total: 36
Available Seats: 4
Wait List Capacity: 10
Wait List Total: 0

Textbook / Other Materials

Status: Required
ISBN: 9781138201866
Title: Exploring Medical Anthropology
Publisher: Routledge
Author: Joralemon

Status: Required
ISBN: 9780881337488
Title: Dancing Skeletons
Publisher: Waveland Press, Incorporated
Author: Dettwyler

Status: Required
ISBN: 9780374525644
Title: Spirit Catches You & You Fall Down
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Author: Fadiman

More textbook information including prices

Enrollment Information

  • Upper Division
  • Multicultural Perspectives Mission Pillar
  • Upper Div - D Social Sciences

Notes

Students are encouraged to attend the synchronous class meetings, but for those who cannot attend regularly, recordings will be available for asynchronous viewing.