Section Info: ANTHR-216MB-01

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? In this course we will answer this question by nesting larger anthropological understandings of the body within central concepts in medical anthropology. We will begin the course by exploring the history of medical anthropology from the mid-20th century to the present. The second part of the course will be devoted to a few key topics in medical anthropological scholarship: caregiving labor, access to healthcare, bioethics, biopolitics, and structural violence. We will then turn to a series of discussions on key topics of interest to contemporary medical anthropologists in the third part of the course. Taken together, this course will shed light on the porosity and multiplicity of embodied states.

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	TBA	TBA	Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Requisite Courses
Prereq: ANTHR-105.	Take previously	Required

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Course Availability
Section status: Waitlisted	Capacity: 20	Enrollment: 19	Available: 0	Waitlist: 10

Please note: The "Available" count will equal 0 in a Waitlisted course where spaces in the course have recently opened and students have not yet been moved into them from the waitlist.

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List	Required	Publisher Full Price
To be determined.

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This is NOT the complete book list for this class.