2025 Summer Session D
6 weeks, July 7 - August 15
ANTHRO 115 001 - LEC 001
Introduction to Medical Anthropology
Corinne P Hayden
Class #:14010
Units: 4
Instruction Mode:
In-Person Instruction
Offered through
Anthropology
Current Enrollment
Total Open Seats:
20
Enrolled: 12
Waitlisted: 0
Capacity: 32
Waitlist Max: 10
No Reserved Seats
Hours & Workload
2 hours of the exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week, 20 hours of outside work hours per week, and 8 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week.
Course Catalog Description
Cultural, psychological, and biological aspects of the definitions, causes, symptoms, and treatment of illness. Comparative study of medical systems, practitioners, and patients.
Class Description
This course offers an introduction to medical anthropology, moving from the field's early efforts to help medical practitioners and public health workers negotiate "gaps" between medical knowledge and "cultural" or even personal beliefs, to later analyses of biomedicine as itself a form of culture, politics, and power. Our topics will include global epidemics (eg HIV/AIDS and Covid-19), the rise of pharmaceuticals, and global transformations in public health. We will explore how such developments have transformed different experiences of health, illness, and medicine.
Rules & Requirements
Repeat Rules
Course is not repeatable for credit.
Requirements class fulfills
Meets Social & Behavioral Sciences, L&S Breadth
Reserved Seats
Current Enrollment
No Reserved Seats