ANTHR 7682

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ANTHR 7682
Medicine and Healing in Africa

Course information provided by the 2020-2021 Catalog.

Healing and medicine are simultaneously individual and political, biological and cultural. In this class, we will study the expansion of biomedicine in Africa, the continuities and changes embodied in traditional medicine, and the relationship between medicine, science and law. We will explore the questions African therapeutics poses about the intimate ways that power works on and through bodies. Our readings will frame current debates around colonial and postcolonial forms of governance through medicine, the contradictions of humanitarianism and the health crisis in Africa, and the rise of new forms of therapeutic citizenship. We will examine the ways in which Africa is central to the biopolitics of the contemporary global order.


Permission Note Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

When Offered Fall.

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Syllabi: none

  • 16918 ANTHR 7682   SEM 101

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    • F Savage Hall 100
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Langwick, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person Transition to Online

    Enrollment limited to students who are able to attend in-person classes in the Ithaca area.

Syllabi: none

  • 20256 ANTHR 7682   SEM 102

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    • F Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Langwick, S

  • Instruction Mode: Online

    Only ANTHR 4682 will allow remote enrollment.