SOA 211 - Culture and Healing (4 Cr.)

(GCR Social and Behavioral Sciences area)

This course looks at cultural dimensions of healing and illness. How is health understood in different cultures? How do people heal? Material will be explored from a broad range of cultural settings, and will include such topics as indigenous medicine, narrative and the cultural construction of illness, subjectivity, the ethics of biomedicine, and social suffering. Variable semesters. Turner.