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This course examines how medicine is practiced cross-culturally, with particular emphasis on Western biomedicine.
FREE
This course includes
Hours of videos
499 years, 11 months
Units & Quizzes
18
Unlimited Lifetime access
Access on mobile app
Certificate of Completion
Students analyze medical practice as a cultural system, focusing on the human, as opposed to the biological, side of things. Also considered is how people in different cultures think of disease, health, body, and mind
Course Currilcum
- Introduction to the Course Unlimited
- Introduction to Basic Issues Unlimited
- “Irrational” Beliefs in Disease Causation and Treatment Unlimited
- Symbolic Healing and Harming Unlimited
- The Cultural Construction of Disease Unlimited
- Theoretical Frames Unlimited
- Meaning, Medicine, and Illness Unlimited
- The Institution(s) of Medicine II Unlimited
- The Institution(s) of Medicine III Unlimited
- The Institution(s) of Medicine V Unlimited
- The Institution(s) of Medicine VII Unlimited
- Health, Disease and Healing in the Larger Social Context II Unlimited
- Health, Disease and Healing in the Larger Social Context III Unlimited
- Health, Disease and Healing in the Larger Social Context IV Unlimited
- Health, Disease and Healing in the Larger Social Context V Unlimited
- Stigma, Responsibility, and Blame Unlimited
- The Challenge of Chronic Illness Unlimited
- New Reproductive Technologies Unlimited
