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Medical Anthropology Special Lecture

1. Overview

For international health, especially for cooperation and development, understanding diversified cultural background is crucially important. Any aid without understanding tends to become a kind of cultural invasion, and it may result in tragic outcomes for the local people. This lecture thus outlines the basic concepts and methodologies of medical anthropology, followed by several examples.

2. Plan

The lecture is done in the first semester on Thursday, 14:30-16:00 at GSICS 206.

• Applied medical anthropology and health care
• Disease, illness, sickness and the sick role (handout for 25th July's lecture
• Cultural competence in health care
• Cultural systems models
• Ethnomedical systems and health care sectors
• Transcultural psychiatry and indigenous psychology
• Medical-ecological approaches to health
• Political economy and critical medical anthropology
• Psychobiological dynamics of health
• Syamanic paradigm of ethnomedicine

3. Evaluation

Based on presentation, discussion, and report.

4. Reference

Winkelman M (2009) Culture and Health: Applying Medical Anthropology. Jossey-Bass, John-Wiley and Sons.

5. Office hour

For the students of the Graduate School of Health Sciences, Tuesday, 18:00-18:30, at Myodani campus E707. For the students of GSICS, Thusday, 16:40-18:00 at Frontier Building Room 717. Taking appointment is recommended.

6. Message to the students

Done in English.

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