ANTH 379

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Medical Anthropology

Credit: 3 hours.

An anthropological approach is used to explore human health by integrating perspectives from biological and medical anthropology, as well as human biology. By the end of the course, students will be able to conceptualize health holistically, encompassing wellness and well-being. They will learn how to define, measure, and incorporate embodiment theory using genetic, epigenetic, and human biological methods. Students will also gain a strong understanding of the biological mechanisms through which environmental factors influence health outcomes and contribute to health disparities.

Prerequisite: ANTH 230 strongly recommended, or consent of instructor.

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ANTH 379 class schedule data for fall 2026
	Status		CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
			64771	Lecture-Discussion	1	11:00AM -12:20PM	TR	312 David Kinley Hall	Rabanes, R	Availability: Open Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/26-12/09/26 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Topical focus in Fall 26: ANTHROPOLOGY OF CARE: What does it mean to care? Over the past two decades, care has become an important topic in social and political discourse. Medical anthropologists have turned to care to reexamine kinship, mutual aid, deinstitutionalization, incarceration, health justice, or global health. Through a series of medical ethnographies, this course examines care as an intimate practice that is profoundly social and political. Rather than taking claims of care at face value and accept all care practices as benevolent, we will seek to understand their inner logic and examine their ambiguity, ambivalence, potential violence and collateral effects.