AN2004 - Medical Anthropology
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 1 |
| Administered by: | College of Arts, Society & Education |
Using different analytical approaches, this subject explores a variety of medical systems human groups have developed through time to maintain the health of individuals and communities. Emphasis is placed on understanding health and illness as culturally and politically situated phenomena. Case materials are drawn from around the world, and students are introduced to the three broad approaches to medical anthropology: critical; interpretive and biocultural. The Western medical or biomedical paradigm is situated philosophically and historically as a culturally informed knowledge system to be considered comparatively. Human - technology relationships and biopolitical questions are also considered. Specific topics covered include: drug use and abuse; the historical evolution of disease categories and mental illnesses; the anthropology of experience and the body; neuroanthropology; global health, international aid and inequality and shamanism and symbolic healing.
Learning Outcomes
- critically analyse relationships between health, social development and inequality;
- Students completing this subject will be able to: identify the ways socio-cultural contexts and political processes relate to health and illness;
- locate the development of the Western and non- Western system of medicine within a broader history of ideas and technologies;
- demonstrate and apply knowledge of biocultural, critical and interpretive medical anthropology frameworks.
| Prerequisites: | 12 credit points of first year |
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | AN3004 |
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 23-Mar-2017 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Robin Rodd |
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| Assessment: | tutorial participation (% - 20%); essays (% - 50%); quizzes (% - 30%). |
| External, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 23-Mar-2017 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Robin Rodd |
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| Method of Delivery: | WWW - LearnJCU |
| Assessment: | essays (% - 50%); online participation (% - 20%); quizzes (% - 30%). |
| Cairns, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 23-Mar-2017 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Robin Rodd |
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| Assessment: | tutorial participation (% - 20%); essays (% - 50%); quizzes (% - 30%). |
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