297B1
Advanced graduate seminar
SoSe 15: Introduction to Medical Anthropology
Mustafa Abdalla
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This introductory seminar guides students to understand what medical anthropology is about. It exposes participants to the way people respond to pain, suffering, and seek healing in specific contexts and how seemingly local and global cultural processes shape aspects of our bodies, such as illness, sex, and social roles as patients.
The seminar is geared towards introducing students to a broad range of medical anthropology topics and theoretical approaches. To reach the goal of the seminar, case studies on sorcery, biomedicine, chronic illness, urban violence, organ donation and selling, and clinical trials, will be examined. The readings of the seminar will encourage students to think beyond the biological imperatives of illness and healing by investigating the ways in which illness, health, and healing are embedded within specific social, political, and cultural environments. Therefore, the focus of the seminar will be comparative. It will tackle issues of illness, misfortune, the sick role and healing in different regional settings ranging from Africa, the Middle East, China to the Western world. close
The seminar is geared towards introducing students to a broad range of medical anthropology topics and theoretical approaches. To reach the goal of the seminar, case studies on sorcery, biomedicine, chronic illness, urban violence, organ donation and selling, and clinical trials, will be examined. The readings of the seminar will encourage students to think beyond the biological imperatives of illness and healing by investigating the ways in which illness, health, and healing are embedded within specific social, political, and cultural environments. Therefore, the focus of the seminar will be comparative. It will tackle issues of illness, misfortune, the sick role and healing in different regional settings ranging from Africa, the Middle East, China to the Western world. close
12 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Mon, 2015-04-20 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2015-04-27 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2015-05-04 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2015-05-11 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2015-05-18 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2015-06-01 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2015-06-08 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2015-06-15 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2015-06-22 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2015-06-29 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2015-07-06 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2015-07-13 12:00 - 14:00