Anthropology 240 - Medical Anthropology
Medical Anthropology
Fall
2021
01
4.00
Pamela Stone
MW 10:00AM-11:15AM
Mount Holyoke College
115362
Reese 316
pstone@mtholyoke.edu
This course provides an introduction to medical anthropology. Core topics will include: the culture of medicine, the interaction of biology and society, the experience of illness, caregiving, addiction, violence, and humanitarian intervention. We will explore how ethnographic research and social theory can enrich understanding of illness and care, raising issues for and about medicine and public health often left out of other disciplinary approaches. Throughout, we will emphasize the vantage point of the local worlds in which people experience, narrate, and respond to illness and suffering, and the ways in which large-scale forces contribute to such local experience.
Prereq: ANTHR-105.