Anthropology and Global Health

Module code: IPH7008

Credits: 15.0
Semester: SEM2

Contact: Dr Jennifer Randall

The module will introduce key theoretical themes and concepts in anthropology which relate to global health issues. A range of topics will be presented which demonstrate how anthropologists have understood global health issues as biological, cultural and social in nature. The content will include theoretical perspectives in medical anthropology, illness narratives, biopolitics, pharmaceutical governance, health citizenship, structural violence and social suffering, medical technologies, global mental health, the anthropology of communicable and non-communicable disease, medical pluralism, and the anthropology of bioethics.

Connected course(s): UDF DATA
Assessment: 70.0% Coursework, 30.0% Practical
Level: 7