Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC EXPLORATION OF HEALTH AND DISEASE

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examine a variety of folk and popular health belief systems known as complementary and alternative medicine. Drawing on works of narrative, legal sources, and articles in the medical literature, we will compare the different health belief systems with conventional biomedicine and discuss society's response to them.