ANT 411 - Culture, Illness and Healing

While all human beings endure forms of illness and suffering throughout life, how individuals understand and approach this experience varies widely across cultures, religions, national contexts, and medical paradigms. Through case-studies based in the U.S. and globally, this combined upper-level/grad seminar grapples with concepts of physical, mental and spiritual illness and suffering and investigates the diverse methods, religious cosmologies, and medical paradigms various communities invoke to assuage distress.

Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring

Credits: 3