Taught By:
Christine Sargent
Assistant Professor
Anthropology Department
University of Colorado Denver
christine.sargent@ucdenver.edu
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Course Description:
ANTH 4600/5600 applies a holistic anthropological perspective to questions of health, illness, and medicine. We will examine how technologies of power and inequality shape health and illness on individual and collective levels, and we will pay significant attention to the comparative and critical study of biomedicine, given its intimate entanglements with colonialism and capitalism. Drawing on ethnographic and mixed-methods research, popular media, and films, medical anthropology challenges students to rethink conventional dichotomies like biology versus culture, body versus mind, science versus religion, and healing versus harm.
