Medical Anthropology

The subject is divided into two parts: the first part is an introduction to medical anthropology, followed by cross-cultural comparisons of health, illness, and healing and curing practices.
The first part focuses on a brief overview of the key anthropological works that have dealt with health, illness and healing in the history of the discipline and some contemporary approaches to these phenomena. In the second part some of the key themes are analysed, giving them different emphasis each year: (1) body, health, illness and healing/curing practices as culturally and/socially mediated phenomena; (2) institutional development of Western medicine from the Middle Ages until today and its impact on different cultural environment; (3) theoretical and methodological approaches to healing in the »traditional« medicines, as well as complementary medicines; (4) medical pluralism, as well as presentation of health institutions, within which operate different medical systems; (5) mental health, selected concepts from cross-cultural psychiatry, deinstitutionalisation and community care ; (6) new genetics, new reproductive technology and ethical dilemmas; (7) contemporary migration through the optics of medical anthropology; (8) inequities and vulnerabilities in health and healthcare; (9) Western medicine and the growing social stratification in the world.
In the tutorials, students will deepen the knowledge they have acquired in lectures through practical work, which will include collaboration in project work, attendance at training sessions (for health professionals, intercultural mediators, etc.) or thematic fieldwork.

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