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Nov 27, 2024
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Goucher College 2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.
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SOA 211 - Culture and Healing (4 Cr.)(formerly ANT 210)
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. Prerequisite: SOA 100 or permission of instructor. Fall semester. Offered 2017-18 and alternate years. Turner.
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