Medical Anthropology (ANTH0097)

Key information

Faculty: Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences
Teaching department: Anthropology
Credit value: 45

Restrictions: This module is a compulsory module that is only available to students on MSc Medical Anthropology.
Timetable

Alternative credit options

This module is offered in several versions which have different credit weightings (e.g. either 15 or 30 credits). Please see the links below for the alternative versions. To choose the right one for your programme of study, check your programme handbook or with your department.

Medical Anthropology (ANTH0182)

Description

Module Content

This course will introduce Medical Anthropology, which is the subfield of anthropology concerned with how human societies respond to and shape the experiences of health, illness, and recovery. These human responses include uniquely evolved systems of diagnosis and therapeutic intervention based on diverse cultural ideologies, etiological assumptions, and views of the universe. Medical anthropology also studies cultural definitions of health, well-being and 鈥渢he normal鈥� and includes critical analysis of the social relations, ideologies, and technologies that help constitute modern biomedical systems. Medical anthropology emphasizes the influence of social and political structures, cultural interpretations and norms, inequality, ecological contexts, and human relationships as they shape health, illness, and local clinical realities.

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Delivery Method

One 2 hour lecture and one 2 hour seminar per week.

Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year

Intended teaching term: Terms 1 and 2 听听听 Postgraduate (FHEQ Level 7)

Teaching and assessment

Mode of study: In person
Methods of assessment: 100% Coursework
Mark scheme: Numeric Marks

Other information

Number of students on module in previous year: 11
Module leader: Dr Jo Cook
Who to contact for more information: joanna.cook@ucl.ac.uk

Last updated

This module description was last updated on 19th August 2024.

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