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Graduate Record 2015-2016 
    
Graduate Record 2015-2016 [ARCHIVED RECORD]

ANTH 5250 - The Experience of Illness in American Society


Starting with the basic premise that the experience of illness/disease is at once a biological and cultural condition, the course focuses on narratives of the sick as a lens into the interrelationships between the body and society, medicine and culture. While the point of entry is the individual experience of illness and self in one Western society, the course intends to build a theoretical framework with which we can begin to conceptualize cultural institutional responses to and definitions of disease and ill-health.



Credits: 3