May 03, 2025  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
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ANT 317 - Medical Anthropology


Credit Hours: 3
An examination of health, illness and healing from an applied anthropological perspective, Medical anthropology is one of the largest fields in the discipline of anthropology today, and one that has obvious applications. Topics may include: evolutionary perspectives on illness, the cultural construction of illness, cross-cultural variations in illness and healing, ethnomedical beliefs and practices, shamanism and other forms of symbolic healing, ethnobotany, and relations between biomedicine and ethnomedicine.

Lecture contact hours: 3

Typically offered: Demand



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