This course is a cross-cultural survey of health, illness and healing in small scale societies as well as modern societies from a cultural, biological, and ecological perspective. Topics covered include perceptions of the body, perceptions of disease, life phases, culture-specific syndromes, healing practices, healers, nutrition, and healing and medical system.

Course number: 73586 (Fall 2009)

This is an online class.
An on-campus orientation will be held on:
Wednesday, August 26, 2009  from 6:00 - 7:00 p.m., Room LL-109  (San Marcos Campus on the bottom floor of the library)
Instructor: Anne-Marie Mobilia

Join us in discussing and answering these questions and many more in the exciting new course called Medical Anthropology that is offered online.

Did you ever wonder…

• What the advantages and disadvantages of alternative medicine are?

• How biotechnology and telemedicine affect your life?

• How people of different cultures view their body?

• If the number 40 has symbolic power?

• How different cultures explain illness?

• How "folk" healers cure people?

• How different cultures view pain and suffering?

• How people from different cultures respond to stress?

• How mental illnesses is viewed and handled in other cultures?

• What cultural rituals are involved in pregnancy and childbirth?

• How different cultures view death and dying?

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