STS 6331

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STS 6331
Anthropology of Biomedicine

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

In recent decades, anthropologists have begun to treat biomedicine as ethnomedicine, opening up the cultural assumptions, differences, and contingencies underpinning biomedical science and practice. This course examines biomedicine as a global cultural system, treating human health as a shifting product of nature and culture. Among topics covered will be approaches to illness and suffering, biomedical epistemologies, theories of embodiment, medicalization, and new medical technologies.

When Offered Spring.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 15693 STS 6331   SEM 101

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