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ANTH2627: Culture, Illness and Health

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ANTH2627: Culture, Illness and Health

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This unit introduces students to medical anthropology, examining how health, illness and healing are shaped by historical, social, cultural, political and economic forces. It explores diverse understandings of illness across the Global North and South. Students engage with anthropological perspectives on health, considering how cultural beliefs, inequality and power shape experiences and treatment. The unit compares biomedical and alternative approaches, encouraging critical reflection on what counts as health and whose knowledge is valued. Topics include mental health, symbolism in healing practices, drug addiction, the medicalisation of women鈥檚 bodies, obesity, and infectious diseases.

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Study level	Undergraduate
Academic unit	Anthropology
Credit points	6

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Prerequisites: ?	12 credit points at 1000 level in Anthropology or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Gender Studies
Corequisites: ?	None
Prohibitions: ?	ANTH2027
Assumed knowledge: ?	None

Learning outcomes

At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:

LO1. understand the key concepts anthropologists use to describe and analyse the social and cultural meanings of health and illness
LO2. understand the interrelationships between social forces, cultural values, the environment, and a person's health and wellbeing
LO3. understand how social, political, and economic forces contribute to human suffering, sickness, and disease
LO4. read ethnographies in medical anthropology critically, identify a scholar's theoretical perspective, and appreciate the relative strengths and limitations of different analytic and interpretive approaches for the specific questions asked in medical anthropology
LO5. synthesize qualitative observations of people's thinking, behaviour, and their experience of health and illness and use theoretical frameworks to make generalizations about the nature, causes and consequences of health and illness.

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Semester 1 2026	Normal day	Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney	View

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Semester 1 2020	Normal day	Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney	View
Semester 1 2021	Normal day	Remote	View
Semester 2 2022	Normal day	Remote	View
Semester 1 2024	Normal day	Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney	View

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ANTH2627: Culture, Illness and Health

2027 unit information

Unit details and rules

Managing faculty or University school:

Arts and Social Sciences

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Enrolment rules

Learning outcomes

Unit availability

Modes of attendance (MoA)

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