AN3004 - Medical Anthropology
Credit points: |
3 |
Year: |
2014 |
Student Contribution Band: |
Band
1
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Administered by: |
School of Arts and Social Sciences (pre 2015) |
Using different analytical approaches, this subject explores the variety of medical
systems human groups have developed through time to maintain the health of individuals
and communities. Emphasis is placed on ecological and evolutionary approaches to health.
The Western medical or biomedical paradigm is situated philosophically and historically
in order to view it as a culturally and ideologically informed knowledge system to
be considered from a comparative anthropological viewpoint. Case materials are drawn
from Indigenous Australia, Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas.
Learning Outcomes
- apply these perspectives to current issues in health across cultures, including issues
associated with applied anthropology and social development;
- extend this perspective into a more meaningful conceptual framework which takes into
account cultural differences between human groups;
- locate the development of the Western and non-Western systems within a broader ecological
framework in which health systems are seen to be measures of societies adaptation
to their environments;
- understand the variation in disease patterns, and social responses to them, between
human groups by reference to the cultural basis of the human condition.
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:
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AN2004 |
Availabilities
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Townsville,
Internal,
Study Period 1
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Census Date 27-Mar-2014 |
Coord/Lect: |
Dr Robin Rodd. |
Workload expectations: |
- 26 hours lectures
- 12 hours tutorials
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Assessment: |
quizzes or tests (% - 30%); tutorial attendance and participation (% - 20%); essays (% - 50%). |
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External,
Study Period 1
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Census Date 27-Mar-2014 |
Coord/Lect: |
Dr Robin Rodd. |
Workload expectations: |
- 2 hours - Electronic communication.
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Method of Delivery: |
WWW - LearnJCU |
Assessment: |
essays (% - 50%); assignments (% - 50%). |
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Note:
Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process,
and in case
of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest
official information.