Course ID
007240
Course Description
Comparative medical systems and healing traditions, regional health arenas, and health care seeking. Topics include folk medicine, traditional medical systems, distinctive illness and public health problems, patterns of resort in the use of pluralistic medical resources, and the way in which the practice of biomedicine has been adapted to regional culture. Explores the medical cultures of Mexico and Latin America, Native America, Africa and Asia.
Min Units
3
Max Units
3
Repeatable for Credit
No
Grading Basis
GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E
Career
Graduate
Course Requisites
ANTH 536A is not prerequisite to ANTH 536B.
May be convened with
Component
Lecture
Optional Component
No