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21A.215 Disease and Health: Culture, Society, and Ethics (MIT)

MIT OpenCourseWare: New Courses 2013-03-28

Summary:

This course examines how medicine is practiced cross-culturally, with particular emphasis on Western biomedicine. Students analyze medical practice as a cultural system, focusing on the human, as opposed to the biological, side of things. Also considered is how people in different cultures think of disease, health, body, and mind. Email this Article Add to Facebook Add to Twitter Add to digg Add to Google

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beliefs history of medicine sickness healing disease causation disease treatment institutions of medicine

Authors:

Jackson, Jean

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Date tagged:

03/28/2013, 16:18

Date published:

01/23/2013, 00:45