| Course Title: Special Topics in Anthropology: 'The Medical Body' |
| Start Date: 01/28/2025 End Date: 05/13/2025 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2025 |
| Description: How has medical anthropology apprehended bodies through its decades-long history? We will be reading four books cover to cover, with shorter framing pieces in interstitial weeks. Our readings will come primarily from medical anthropologists, but we will also read across cognate fields in medical humanities and social science. Central to our class discussions will be the ways biomedicine has cared for people occupying gendered, racialized and disabled bodies, especially when many medical practices are designed for an idea of a canonical, universally standardized body. Taken together, this course will shed light on the porosity and multiplicity of embodied states within healthcare systems. |
| Distribution(s): III - Social Sciences , TP - Topics Course |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Anisha Chadha | achadha@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 01/28/2025 - 05/13/2025 | Lecture | Tuesday and Thursday | 01:45PM - 03:00PM | KNDD - Kendade | 303 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Prereq: ANTHR-105. | Take previously | Required |
| Comments |
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| Course Tags |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 20 | Enrollment: 18 | Available: 2 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| To be determined. |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is NOT the complete book list for this class. |