ANTH4075

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ANTH 4075 - Cultural Histories of Healing (3 Cr.) Global Perspectives, Social Sciences

Anthropology (10950) TCLA - College of Liberal Arts

Course description

Introduction to historically informed anthropology of healing practice. Shift to biologically based medicine in Europe, colonialist dissemination of biomedicine, political/cultural collisions between biomedicine and "ethnomedicines," traffic of healing practices in a transnationalist world.

Minimum credits

3

Maximum credits

3

Is this course repeatable?

No

Grading basis

AFV - A-F or Audit

Lecture

This course fulfills the following Liberal Education requirement(s)

Social Sciences, Global Perspectives

Fulfills the writing intensive requirement?

No

Typically offered term(s)

Spring Even Year