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Anthropology of Health – 4,5 ECTS Manos Spyridakis Course Description The course aims at critically exploring biomedicine as a social and institutional phenomenon. It focuses on how the technological and cognitive progress and the dominant ideology are combined creating a field within which "medical" concepts such as sickness, healing, body, malfunction, etc., are constructed and legitimized. The fundamental objective is to explore and understand the disease as a cultural process, the comparative dimension of health in relation to other cultures outside the Western context, the showing of epistemological consequences of this comparison as well as the process through which institutional forms regarding health exercise social control and enforce social hierarchies. Objectives Understanding of the concept of biomedicine Learning Outcomes Ability of medical systems comparing Structure Six (6) three-hour lectures Students’ assessment Written exams Bibliography Riboli, D., (2008), Tunsuriban. Ανθρωπολογική Μελέτη του Σαμανισμού των Chepang του Νοτίου και κεντρικού Νεπάλ, Αθήνα: Παπαζήσης. |