ANTH 26 Gender and Global Health
This course will examine the intersection of gender and health. Readings will be from medicine, history, journalism, and the social sciences. We will interrogate the relationship between biology, science, and culture, focusing our attention on the cultural construction of healing and embodied experience of illness. We will examine how cultural institutions, ideologies, and practices contribute to health disparities along lines of race, class, and gender, paying attention to medicine's role in gendering the body.
Department-Specific Course Categories
CULT