Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 4 · IGETC Area 4 · CSU GE Area D1 · CSU GE Area DDescriptionThis course offers a cross-cultural approach to the study of health, disease, illness, suffering, childbirth, healing, and death. Healing systems in hunter-gatherer, tribal, peasant, and industrialized societies are contrasted. Several theoretical perspec- tives are invoked while analyzing these systems, including ethnomedical, biocul- tural, interpretive, and political economical. Students examine not only what peo- ple do, whom they consult and where they go when they become sick, but how they ultimately comprehend and accept illness and misfortune in their world. 