Anthropology and International Health (P01154)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : SPS-P-SPS

Anthropology increasingly deals with issues of international health. On the one hand, anthropolgists who work in applied contexts aim at translating public health knowledge and policy into effective action. Simultaneously, many anthropologists reflect critically on how governmental health initiatives are increasingly central to everyday life and how health organisations are unfolding a transnational 'government of the body'. In this course, we explore the tension between these different standpoints along case studies on how anthropology engages with international health agendas.

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Postgraduate (School of Social and Political Studies), (School of Social and Political Studies, Schedule J)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : To be arranged/Unknown

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

? Additional Class Information : obe essay of approximtely 4,000 words

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

- have an advanced understanding of both applied and critical anthropology in relation to international health
- grasp the relationship between globalization and health from an anthropological perspective
- have developed an appreciation of how an anthropological understanding of international health can be applied to health systems in the U.K..
- engage anthropological arguments in relation to health policy and practice
- set their own anthropological research agenda in relating to global health issues
- prepare and present scholarly work for seminars and publications