ANSC 164Introduction to Medical Anthropology
Basic concepts and theory of medical anthropology are introduced and applied to comparison of medical systems including indigenous and biomedical, taking into account cross-cultural variation in causal explanation, diagnosis, perception, management, and treatment of illness and disease.
Prerequisites
From the catalog: “upper-division standing.”
Where it sits in degree plans
One of the options in (1)
- Public Health (B.S.)
Courses that list ANSC 164 as a prerequisite (2)
- ANSC 190GS Medicine and Healing in South Asia
- ANSC 191GS Everyday Life in South Asia: Beyond the Clichés