ANTHRO 732

Reading Medical Ethnography


Please note: this is archived course information from 2019 for ANTHRO 732.

Description

This course involves a close and critical reading and class discussion of recent ethnographic monographs in medical ethnography, together with supplementary reading on theory, ethics, methodology and ethnographic writing.

Course objectives:

  • To advance students' understanding of the challenges of social anthropological research in health and illness by examining issues of theory, content, ethnography and practice by reading, discussing and writing about the work of leading practitioners in the field of medical anthropology
  • To promote critical thinking
  • To enhance oral and written skills

Availability 2019

Not taught in 2019

Lecturer(s)

Lecturer(s) Professor Susanna Trnka

Reading/Texts

5 full length ethnographies - titles TBA.

Points

ANTHRO 732: 15 points