AANB05093U Medical Anthropology, Introductory Course
Board of Studies, Department of Anthropology
Medical anthropology is the study of health, illness, and healing across the range of human societies and over the course of human experience. It includes the ways that human communities understand and respond to the challenges of health and illness, it studies the meaning of signs of illness and suffering as part of the general study of culture, and it strives to interpret them in the light of wider understandings of resources, technology, ritual and religion. This introductory course covers some of the most familiar and important themes in medical anthropology. The literature focuses on classic texts dealing with issues such as classification of illness, uncertainties, bodies, subjectivities, identities, narratives, medicines, symbolic healing, patients and therapeutic journeys. The aim of the course is to introduce the field of medical anthropology as part of the overall study of culture and society.
By the end of the course the students should be able to display:
- Identify central anthropological approaches to studying health,
illness and healing in human societies
- Recognize how cultural values, social situations and relations
that shape understandings of and responses to the challenges of
health and illness
- Discern and summarize key anthropological arguments and
concepts in course readings
- Explain cross cultural differences in health, illness and
healing
- Present ethnographic case material using anthropological concepts
- Empirical knowledge of illness experience, health practices, health technologies and health systems in cross-cultural settings
BSc-, Credit-, and international students: 500 pages
obligatory literature.
- Category
- Hours
- Course Preparation
- 95
- Exam Preparation
- 16
- Practical exercises
- 25
- Seminar
- 42
- Study Groups
- 28
- Total
- 206
International- and credit students; read about application
here:
International
students/Credit
students
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- PortfolioLength: The portfolio exam can be taken individually or in groups of maximum four students. The portfolio exam consists of 3-7 submissions. The number of submissions is set by the lecturer. The total length of all of the submissions must not exceed 30,000 keystrokes for a single student. For groups of two students the maximum is 40,000 keystrokes. For groups of three students the maximum is 45,000 keystrokes and for groups of four students the maximum is 50,000 keystrokes.
- Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
- Re-exam
1. re-exam:
A new essay with a revised problem statement must be submitted at the announced date. The students must sign up for the 1. re-exam.
Please note that the re-exam is an essay even for courses, where the ordinary exam is a portfolio exam.
2. re-exam:
A new essay with a revised problem statement must be submitted at the announced date next semester. The students must sign up for the 2. re-exam.
Criteria for exam assesment
See description of learning outcome. Formalities for Written Works must be fulfilled, read more: MSc Students/ BA students (in Danish)/ exchange and credit students
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- AANB05093U
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Level
- BachelorBachelor choice
- Duration
- 1 semester
- Placement
- Spring
- Schedule
- See timetable
- Study board
- Department of Anthropology, Study Council
Contracting department
- Department of Anthropology
Course responsibles
- Henrik Hvenegaard Mikkelsen (10-6d7b6a736a6c66667769456673796d777433707a336970)