Anthropology of Health and Healing (P01153)

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

Medical Anthropology is concerned with experiences and practices of health, illness, and healing in different social and cultural settings. One of anthropology's most rapidly growing sub-disciplines, medical anthropology explores both traditional healing and modern medical technologies. It looks at how healing forms address both old ills and emerging health problems associated with social change. This course introduces the students to the key issues in medical anthropology and gets them engaged with the field's distinctive perpective on health and healing.

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

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

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

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

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
23/09/2009	09:00	10:50			Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, 12 Buccleuch Place

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Wednesday	09:00	10:50	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

analyze health and healing from an anthropological perspective
by reading a range of ethnographies, realize the breadth and scope of the anthropological engagement with medicine and healing
have an advanced understanding of how the body is constituted as an object of the knowledges and practices of medicine in different cultural contexts
have an advanced knowledge of non-biomedical forms of healing
appreciate how different anthropological theories can be applied to issues in health and healing