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301958 (v.2) Medical Anthropology in International Health 600



 

Area:Centre for International Health
Contact Hours:8.0
Credits:25.0
Individual Study:1 x 8 Hours Weekly
Overview of anthropological and sociological contributions of health and health care, models of disease, health, illness and care, historical genesis and cross-cultural introduction to ethnomedicines, biomedicine as a form of ethnomedicine, patients and healers in the context of culture, the health consequences of rapid social change. Mental health in developing and developed countries. The political economy of ill-health.

 

 

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