Online Courses Handbook 2003

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.