ANTH 3236 - Culture and Healing

5 credit hours
Formerly - ANTH 336

Exploration of the meanings of health, disease and modes of healing from a cross-cultural perspective. Changes in disease and mortality in relation to changes in socialstructure. Development of modern scientific medicine, professionalization, and the hospital system; critiques and alternative therapeutics; contemporary dilemmas and prospects of globalization. Cross-listed with SOCL 3450.