Key issues in medical anthropology

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Fluency in reading, writing and speaking English.

Student's knolwedge will be verified in a form of a written assignment. 50% of the grade will be constituted by the student's engagement in the class discussions.

Medical anthropology have made use of diverse theoretical orientations and methodologies over the years to produce a rich body of ethnographic data on social health. We will get to know some of the interpretative frameworks and concepts develped by medical anthropologists ( e.g. medical pluralism, medicalization of life, illness narratives, Critical Medical Anthropology). We will follow with reading exemplary ethnographies to dwell into the ways in which this subdiscipline tackles the issues related to health and illness cross-culturally.

Mattingly, Ch. (2014). Moral Laboratories. Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life. The California University Press.

Chapter: “Home Experiments. Scenes from the Moral Ordinary” (p. 61-79).