Content #1: 10% Intro. to Medical Anthropology including research methods and concept of human biocultural diversity.
Content #2 10%: Definitions, comparative approaches, and analytical frameworks of key concepts of health/disease/ sickness/illness; Meaning and of illness use of illness narratives.
Content #3 10%: Comparative study of healers/healing across cultures.
Content #4 20%: Anthropological study of health and illness through the lifespan, including reproduction, birth, childhood, adulthood, and aging.
Content #5 10%: Relationship of food/nutrition to health and disease through time and across contemporary cultures.
Content #6 10%: Stress, trauma, and mental illness from a comparative cross-cultural perspective.
Content #7 15%: Biocultural study of infectious disease. Infectious disease through time. Anthropological approaches historic and contemporary epidemics and pandemics.
Content #8 15%: Intro. to inequality and structural violence; contribution of these to health disparities in diverse cultural settings