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Aug 26, 2025
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2025-2026 Course of Study Bulletin
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ANTH - 2439 Health, Illness, and Society
Description
This course introduces students to medical anthropology and the sociology of health and illness. The course focuses on 1) factors influencing morbidity/mortality and health/well-being and the forces conditioning the uneven distribution of these states; 2) cross-cultural experiences and meanings of health and illness; 3) the wide range of strategies, techniques, ways of knowing and apprehending, treating, and preventing sickness, of which contemporary biomedicine is but one. (Offered every Fall.) (Also listed as SOCI 2439 .)
Credits: 4
Course Level: Lower Division
Academic Level: Undergraduate
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