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MEDICINE & CULTURE

Subject: SOAN
Catalog Number: 232
Registration Number: 6502
Description: Cultural bases of illness and curing; ethnographicexamination of how non-Western societies perceiveand treat illness and how knowledge of non-Westernpractices can be used to critique and inform themanagement of our own health problems. Meanings ofsickness, nature of relationships between patientsand healers, and effects of culture on health.4 credits (IS or GP)
Location: DAYH 104
Times: 08:15AM- 09:55AM  TTh
Instructor: Amy Miller
Is consent of Instructor Required? No
Course Type: LEC
Students Registered: 16
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