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AMP: Medicine and Society

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Anthropology 142 | Spring, 2018
This course is the required second-semester sequence of the introduction to medical anthropology and cultural anthropology for students enrolled in the Medicine and Society Program. The course builds upon material introduced in Anthropology 141, and provides greater ethnographic context for the cross-cultural study of health and illness. Topical areas include analyses of disease, illness and sickness at micro and macro levels; impact of personal and interpersonal factors on health; health effects of social, political, and economic factors; relationship of anthropology to biological and social sciences approaches; ecology of health and development; and cross-cultural health studies of language, gender, and race/ethnicity. Prerequisite: Anthro 141.
Course Attributes: 
EN S
FYS
BU BA
AS LCD
AS SSC
AS SD I
FA SSC
AR SSC

Section 01

First Year Seminar: Medicine and Society
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Instructor: 
Jacobsen
Room Schedule: 
MoWe 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm | Seigle Hall, Room 109

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