ANTH 162 Anthropology of Health and Disease
This course will highlight themes in contemporary anthropology such as stigma, gender, structural violence, inequality, and emphasize why looking at disease in the past is relevant and critical to the modern world. This course will explore the record and human experience of health, disease, and pandemics from an anthropological perspective. We will begin with a focus on the past as evidenced by historical/archaeological data before shifting to socio-cultural and medical anthropological framings of disease, illness, wellness, and suffering, all while maintaining attention to differing scales of disease experience (population, household, individual).