| CODE | ANT3047 | ||||||
| TITLE | Introduction to Medical Anthropology | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 2 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Anthropological Sciences | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Objective: Medical Anthropology studies the interaction between culture and disease, including the cross-cultural study of local health beliefs and practices. Content: It explores the political economy of medicine, drug studies of human reproduction, studies of stress, and bio-medicine as a cultural system. Reading List: - Johnson and Sargent (eds.) Medical Anthropology - Contemporary Theory and Method: Concepts of Health, Illness and Disease; and individual ethnographic monographs. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Gisella Orsini |
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