ANTHR-317 Body, Self, and Health: China and the Biomedical
Considers the specificity of local medical systems and the way they are entangled with culturally variant ideas about bodies, food, and health. Draws on ethnographic examples of from East Asia, the U.S., and the Pacific, to study the ways that medical traditions (including biomedicine) establish themselves as social institutions and as sources of authoritative knowledge. Covers topics such as: local theories of well-being; disease causation and healing efficacy; authoritative knowledge; theories of embodiment; and food-as-medicine.
Standard Course (40)
Credits
1
Prerequisite
One anthropology course or consent of instructor.
Offered
Fall