Postgraduate Course: Anthropology of Health and Healing (PGSP11071)
Course Outline
| School | School of Social and Political Science |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Postgrad (School of Social and Political Studies) |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | Medical Anthropology is concerned with experiences and practices of health, illness, and healing in different social and cultural settings. One of anthropology's most rapidly growing sub-disciplines, medical anthropology explores both traditional healing and modern medical technologies. It looks at how healing forms address both old ills and emerging health problems associated with social change. This course introduces the students to the key issues in medical anthropology and gets them engaged with the field's distinctive perpective on health and healing. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2012/13 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
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| Central | Lecture | Seminar Room 4, Chrystal Macmillan Building | 1-11 | | | 09:00 - 10:50 | | | | Central | Seminar | Room G.16, Medical School Teviot | 1-11 | | | 11:10 - 12:00 | | |
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
- analyze health and healing from an anthropological perspective
- by reading a range of ethnographies, realize the breadth and scope of the anthropological engagement with medicine and healing
- have an advanced understanding of how the body is constituted as an object of the knowledges and practices of medicine in different cultural contexts
- have an advanced knowledge of non-biomedical forms of healing
- appreciate how different anthropological theories can be applied to issues in health and healing |
Assessment Information
| One essay of approximately 4,000 words. |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Rebecca Marsland
Tel: (0131 6)51 3864
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Course secretary | Miss Madina Howard
Tel: (0131 6)51 1659
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