APY 578SEM - Ethnomedicine

This course presents an advanced survey of current anthropological literature on understandings and practices related to health and illness. We will focus on questions of how somatic and discursive representations help to create various kinds of social realities. Such social realities range from the workings of occult power to addiction therapies, the distribution of pharmaceuticals, organ transplant policies, and the regulation of migration. Throughout, we will consider the sources and consequences of people’s convictions that others ought to be cared for in particular ways.

Credits: 3