AP/ANTH 3330 6.00 Health & Illness in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Learning and Doing Medical Anthropology
This course explores health, illness and medical systems from the viewpoint of social anthropology. It emphasizes medicine and health as culturally significant systems of knowledge and practice. The ways that medical anthropologists apply their knowledge and methods to improve health and social inequalities is a central theme.
Using critical and cross-cultural perspectives, this course will examine the diverse ways in which individuals and societies understand, express, and manage illness and health. In doing so, the course offers a window into the relationship between our bodies and our social and political worlds. Through examining social issues like eating food, care, work and migration, we will ascertain how health and illness are produced and experienced in intersectional ways.
Course Director (Fall/Winter 24-25): A. Steinforth – asteinfo@yorku.ca