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Graduate Record 2021-2022 
    
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ANTH 5360 - World Mental Health

Effective Start Date: 06/01/2013
This course will examine mental health issues from the perspectives of biomedicine and anthropology, emphasizing local traditions of illness and healing as well as evidence from epidemiology and neurobiology. Included topics will be psychosis, depression, PTSD, Culture Bound Syndromes, and suicide. We will also examine the role of pharmaceutical companies in the spread of western based mental health care and culturally sensitive treatment.

Credits: 3
Grading Basis: Graded