GLBH 212“Experiencing Epidemics”: Anthropologies of Infectious Diseases
This course aims to discuss infectious diseases as a dynamic field of study, fruitful for global health research because it allows us to observe the interplay between power, social structures, and cultural practices that orient people’s discourses and behaviors. Students will study how this imbricate set of relations configure social categories that both “socialize” epidemics and “naturalize” social relations played out through categories such as race, ethnicity, and class.
Prerequisites
From the catalog: “graduate-level standing.”