COURSE PROGRAM: MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND PUBLIC HEALTH, LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE & TROPICAL MEDICINE, SPRING 2013
Keywords:
Medical Anthropology, Public Health, Global Health, medicalization, biomedicine as a cultural product, anthropology of biomedicine, disease and illness, commodification, globalization and pharmaceutical industry, social studies of science and technology, biological citizenship, biomedical subjectivities, bio-socialities.Abstract
This course can be attended by any MSc students of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine regardless of specialisation and previous training. The aims of the course consists in providing an introduction to concepts, perspectives, theories and methods in medical anthropology, and illustrating their relevance to public health issues. The module is expected to include sessions addressing the following topics: (1) The way anthropologists have problematized public health and have responded to public health issues; (2) Anthropological conceptualisations of health, medicine and public health, including those around illness and disease, personhood, risk, structural violence, medicalization, citizenship, research participation and bioethics; (3) Introduction to anthropological methodologies and how to apply these to issues in public health. You can find more details of the course by visiting the School’s website at http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/.
