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121-055 Keeping the Body in Mind | |
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Note | Formerly available as 136-005 or 136-212/312. Students who have completed 136-005 or 136-212/312 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 2nd and 3rd year |
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 is an introduction to the key concepts and debates in medical anthropology. We examine the way in which knowledge about health, sickness and healing is the product of specific, historical, social and cultural contexts. The body is the site for knowledge and experience about sickness and healing and accordingly we examine the way that concepts about the body in health and sickness are related to cultural, social and political formations and values. Our own culture and predominant medical system (biomedicine) is examined in the latter part of the subject in order to understand how our assumptions about the body, self, and sickness are neither natural nor neutral, but are culturally embedded and intimately linked with relations of power. Examples may include shamanism, witchcraft, Ayurvedic medicine, ethnopsychiatry and cyberbodies. |
Assessment | An essay and a take-home exam totalling 4000 words. |
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