Course Catalog - 2006-2007

     

MLSC 607 - MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Long Title:
Department: School of Continuing Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: This course examines how the body, health, illness and healing have been conceptualized across different cultures and different historical periods. This course also explores the complex interrelationship between biology and culture, and discusses how historical, political and cultural factors have helped shape our biology to produce specific disbributions of health and disease. Department Permission Required.