Anth 1007W: Health, Culture, and Power: An Introduction to Medical Anthropology will be offered for the Fall 2026 semester.
This course will explore how experiences of health, illness, and our bodies are shaped by the sociocultural, political, economic, and historical contexts in which we live. Students are encouraged to think in cross-cultural and comparative ways about what it means to be an embodied being, and about how relations of power shape humans’ embodied experience.
This course will fulfil TOI categories 2 (Cultural Dimensions of Human Experiences) and 3 (Diversity, Equity, and Social Justice).