• 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

We examine the Anthropological approaches to the study of children and childhood. Research and teaching in looks at childhood where it is examined as a social and historical construction, and children are analyzed as active contributors to their social worlds. Students are encouraged to analyse cross-cultural ethnographic material relating to children and how youth is critically read and discussed.

These are courses undertaken in this thematic area

This area is for students and researchers who are interested in gaining skills and knowledge in gender and development issues. Teaching and research focuses on mainstreaming gender into development planning, programming and policy implementation to achieve gender analysis and practical skills as constructive approaches to reforming development practice towards more equitable and sustainable outcomes.