Sylabus
1) Medical anthropology: Keywords, key distinctions, and historical trajectories
2) Research and methods in medical anthropology
3) Body and embodiment
4) Ethnomedicine
5) Medical pluralism
6) (Bio)medicalization
7) Gender, birth and reproduction
8) Dis/ability
9) Anthropology and/of psychiatry
10) Complementary and alternative medicine
11) Biomedical technologies A detailed syllabus will be distributed at the beginning of the semester.
Anotace
Sociocultural anthropology in general, and medical anthropology in particular, has been questioning predominant understandings of human body, health, and sickness. This course focuses on anthropological encounters with beliefs and practices through which embodiment, wellbeing, and afflictions are experienced, communicated, and enacted in the contemporary cross-cultural context and globalized world.
Topics covered include medical pluralism, disability, (bio)medicalization, reproduction, mental health, complementary and alternative medicine, and (bio)medical technologies. By the end of the course, students will have a better grasp of concepts and methods of sociocultural anthropology; they will be able to critically reflect on their own and others’ embodied experiences of health and disease; and they will be able to apply findings of medical anthropology beyond the field.