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Class number:
2845
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Title: Medical Anthropology |
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Department: Anthropology |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Lecture |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 29 |
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Current enrollment: 31 |
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Available seats: 0 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 |
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End date: Wednesday, December 23, 2026 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM, LSC - 134 |
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Instructor(s): Eisenberg-Guyot, Nadja |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Social Sciences and Global Requirements |
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Note: 5 seats reserved for first year students, 5 for sophomores. |
Course Description:
This introductory course is designed to expose students to contemporary approaches in medical anthropology. Taking an intersectional perspective, we will focus on how illness, health, and healing are embedded in broader social, political, and economic structures and interrogate how medical systems reproduce inequalities of race, class, gender, and ability. Key questions for this course include: What is medical anthropology and how do anthropologists study medicine? How does society structure access to health for some and make others sick? How do cultural, scientific, and technological processes shape our relationships to our bodies, capacities, and self-understandings as sick, dis/abled, healthy, healing, or cured? |