ANTH 3441 — Medical Anthropology
4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureNUpath DDNUpath SIusually offered: falltypical days: M/W/ThBostonTraditional
Examines core concepts of medicine as a cultural system, then moves to anthropology of the body as it has been understood and shaped within healing systems. Medical anthropology is a subfield of anthropology that uses the four-field approach to examine cultural concepts and experiences of health, illness, treatment, and power cross-culturally. Emphasizes history and construction of biomedicine. Surveys traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurvedic medicine, Voudon, Mayan curanderos, and other folk healing systems around the world. Explores medical pluralism, the common practice of seeking out and utilizing more than one therapeutic treatment style at one time; structural violence; and how healing systems interact with broader political and social systems globally.
Prerequisites
Offering history
| Term | Sections | Enrolled | Capacity | Full | Open seats/section |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2023 | 1 | 26 | 49 | 53% | 23.0 |
| Spring 2025 | 1 | 34 | 35 | 97% | 1.0 |
| Fall 2025 | 1 | 23 | 35 | 66% | 12.0 |
Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.
Meeting times
Share of recent sections by weekday: M 100% · T 0% · W 100% · Th 100% · F 0%
Common patterns: MWR (100% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday
Professors
Fall
- Carie Hersh (100% of students) · reviews
Spring
- Carie Hersh (100% of students) · reviews
Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.
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