ANT 330: Medical Anthropology

3 credits

The course examines how human culture, local environment, and disease interrelate. The course will consider traditional explanations for illness, traditional healing methods, and the social role of the healer, nutrition and diet, environmental stresses such as climate and population, the impact of scientific western medicine on local knowledge, and the impact of endemic and epidemic disease on human populations and cultures. Offered Spring (2019, 2024).

Prerequisite(s): ANT 100 or sophomore standing.
Co-requisite(s): None.