ANTH344
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Medical Anthropology
Course Description
This course introduces students to medical anthropology. By exploring human health, sickness and healing from diverse theoretical and cross-cultural perspectives, students will learn how different peoples around the world conceptualize the human body, explain the causes of disease, manage patients and healers, contend with stress, and articulate the meaning and origin of social suffering. The course has a service learning component.
College/School
Willamette College
Locations
Salem
Offering Cycle, by Year
All Years
Offering Cycle, by Semester
FS*
Credit Hours Min
4