ANTH M18 - Culture, Health, and Healing

    Recent Professors
    Ashley Barbier
    Recent Semesters
    Fall 2026, Fall 2025
    Class Size
    45 students
    Credits
    3
    Fall 2026 Sections
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    Transfers To
    UC and CSUCal-GETC Area 4 · IGETC Area 4 · CSU GE Area D
    Description
    Explores the roles of biology, culture, society, and globalization in shaping illness, health, and health-seeking behaviors. Introduces research methodologies, ethics, core concepts, and theoretical perspectives in the social sciences and anthropology, including interpretive, biocultural, ecological, historical, political-economic, and phenomenological approaches. Compares and contrasts the culture of biomedicine with non-Western healing systems with particular attention to explanatory models, views of the body, and the role of ritual. Engages with contemporary topics including medical pluralism, medical technologies, global health and epidemics, and health disparities.
    Usually Held
    Tue Thu 11:30am–1:20pm