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136-005 Keeping the Body in Mind: Culture, Curers and Biomedical Science | |
Note | Formerly available as 136-212/312. Students who have completed 136-212/312 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 2nd and 3rd year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Monique Skidmore |
Prerequisites | see Prerequisites |
Semester | 1 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 2-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial per week |
Subject Description | Students who complete this subject will have an appreciation of the range of factors that contribute towards local understandings of health and illness in a variety of cultural contexts in the Western and non-Western worlds. At the end of the course students will also be able to appreciate the increasingly complex relationship and interaction between Western biomedical sciences and traditional systems of curing. Students will also be able to understand the roles played in local determinations of sickness and well-being by culturally specific belief systems concerning the nature of and relationships between such entities as body, mind, 'spirit', 'soul', and the social context in which they operate. |
Assessment | An essay and a take-home exam totalling 4000 words. |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available. |
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