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121-055 Keeping the Body in Mind | |
Note | Formerly available as 136-212/312/005. Students who have completed 136-212/312/005 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | Dr Monique Skidmore |
Semester | 1 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 2-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial per week |
Subject Description | This subject explores 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 subject students should be able to appreciate the increasingly complex relationship and interaction between western biomedical sciences and traditional systems of curing. Students should 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. |
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