Medical Anthropology: Health, Healing, and Culture in Global Contexts

Name: Medical Anthropology: Health, Healing, and Culture in Global Contexts
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In this free online course, gain insight into medical systems and learn how society shapes health and illness.

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In this free course, you will learn how to:

Define health, illness, sickness, and the sick role
Describe early research and methods in medical anthropology
Distinguish ethnomedicine, traditional environmental knowledge, and biomedicine
Discuss the importance of cross cultural comparison and cultural relativism in the study of human health
Summarize the ethnographic research methods and their applications to the study of human health
Explain the impact of migration, culture, and social behavior on genetics, sexual selection, and reproduction
List the political and economic forces that affect health outcomes

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