Mar 29, 2024  
2021-2022 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2021-2022 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ANT 4265 - Anthropology and Global Health (3)


When Offered: Fall. Alternate years
This course introduces the anthropology of global health, examining urgent health care problems around the world through the unique lens of anthropology. We will ask some of the following questions: How can the knowledge and methodological approach of medical anthropology contribute to researching and ameliorating health concerns, particularly of the most disadvantaged? In what ways does anthropology’s attention to “culture” not only enrich our understanding of the conditions and dynamics of global health, but also expand our ability to design and implement effective global health interventions? Throughout the course, students will be encouraged to think creatively and critically about health problems and policies as well as scrutinize the value systems that underlie the discipline of global health itself.
Students who have previously taken ANT 4266  may not receive credit for ANT 4265.