Transfers ToNot transferableDescriptionThis course provides an introduction to the field of medical anthropology, an interdisciplinary field that explores health, illness, and systems of healing through cross-cultural study. This course will use specific case studies to explore the three major theoretical approaches in medical anthropology: ecological medical anthropology, which examines how aspects of the natural environment interact with culture to cause health problems and to influence their spread through the population; interpretive medical anthropology, which examines how people label, describe, and experience illness and how healing systems offer meaningful responses to individual and communal distress; and critical medical anthropology, which examines how economic and political structures shape people's health status, their access to health care, and the medical systems that exist in relation to them. This is an upper division general education course. This course is only open to students enrolled in a bachelor’s degree program at Fresno City College. (CSU)Usually HeldMon 11:00am–2:05pm 