- The Medical Anthropology thematic area provides students with training to enable them answer the following
- How does culture influence the experience of illness, the practice of medicine and the process of healing for the individual or community?
- What is the contribution of non-Western medical experience and/or plural ‘mixed’ medical systems in our understanding of health care systems?
- How does culture shape biomedical research and practice and how should societies respond to transnational advances in technologies such as genetics or stem cell research?
- How do financial considerations inform global health care practices and priorities?
- How does the experience and perception of the body, self or notion of the individual or person influence illness and identity?
The institute gives student an opportunity to explore these and many other emerging and urgent issues concerning how health and well-being is socially and culturally constituted in comparative and transnational contexts. It offers an innovative teaching, learning and research environment and one of the most comprehensive and exciting programmes of graduate and undergraduate study in the region.
Below are courses undertaken in thematic area of Medical Anthropology:
NAF 600 Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Anthropology
NAF 601 Anthropological Theory.
NAF 602 Social Science Research Methods.
NAF 603 Statistics for Social Sciences.
NAF 604 Contemporary Theory and Method in Medical Anthropology
NAF 605 Fundamentals of Health Social Science.
NAF 606 Implementation Research for Disease Control
NAF 607 Culture, Health and Disease.
NAF 608 Ecology, Health and Disease.
NAF 609 Food, Culture and Disease.
NAF 610 Anthropology of the Body.
NAF 611 Social Science of Tropical Diseases.
NAF 612 Applied Anthropology for Public Health.
NAF 613 Anthropology and Biomedicine.
NAF 614 Ethnomedicine.
NAF 615 Health Systems Research.
NAF 616 Health Promotion.
NAF 617 Culture, Health and Sexuality.
NAF 600 Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Anthropology
NAF 601 Anthropological Theory
NAF 602 Social Science Research Methods
NAF 603 Statistics for Social Sciences
NAF 604 Contemporary Theory and Method in Medical Anthropology
NAF 605 Fundamentals of Health Social Science
NAF 606 Implementation Research for Disease Control.
NAF 607 Culture, Health and Disease.
NAF 608 Ecology, Health and Disease.
NAF 609 Food, Culture and Disease.
NAF 610 Anthropology of the Body.
NAF 611 Social Science of Tropical Diseases.
NAF 612 Applied Anthropology for Public Health.
NAF 613 Anthropology and Biomedicine
NAF 614 Ethnomedicine
NAF 615 Health Systems Research
NAF 616 Health Promotion
NAF 617 Culture, Health and Sexuality
NAF 600 Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Anthropology
NAF 601 Anthropological Theory
NAF 602 Social Science Research Methods.
NAF 603 Statistics for Social Sciences.
NAF 604 Contemporary Theory and Method in Medical Anthropology.
NAF 605 Fundamentals of Health Social Science.
NAF 606 Implementation Research for Disease Control.
NAF 607 Culture, Health and Disease.
NAF 609 Food, Culture and Disease.
NAF 610 Anthropology of the Body.
NAF 611 Social Science of Tropical Diseases.
NAF 612 Applied Anthropology for Public Health.
NAF 613 Anthropology and Biomedicine.
NAF 614 Ethnomedicine.
NAF 615 Health Systems Research.
NAF 616 Health Promotion.
NAF 617 Culture, Health and Sexuality.
NAF 600 Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Anthropology
NAF 601 Anthropological Theory.
NAF 602 Social Science Research Methods.
NAF 603 Statistics for Social Sciences.
NAF 604 Contemporary Theory and Method in Medical Anthropology.
NAF 605 Fundamentals of Health Social Science.
NAF 606 Implementation Research for Disease Control.
NAF 607 Culture, Health and Disease.
NAF 608 Ecology, Health and Disease.
NAF 609 Food, Culture and Disease.
NAF 610 Anthropology of the Body.
NAF 611 Social Science of Tropical Diseases.
NAF 612 Applied Anthropology for Public Health.
NAF 613 Anthropology and Biomedicine.
NAF 614 Ethnomedicine.
NAF 615 Health Systems Research.
NAF 616 Health Promotion.
NAF 617 Culture, Health and Sexuality.