ASRC 4682
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ASRC 4682
Course Description
Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025.
Therapeutic knowledge and practice in Africa have changed dynamically over the past century. Yet, questions about healing continue to be questions about the intimate ways that power works on bodies. Accounts of healing and medicine on the continent describe ongoing struggles over what counts as knowledge and who has the authority to intervene in social and physical threats. This class will discuss the expansion of biomedicine in Africa, the continuities and changes embodied in traditional medicine, and the shifting relationship between medicine, science and law. Our readings with trace how colonialism, post-independence nationalism, international development, environmental change and globalization have shaped the experience of illness, debility and misfortune today, as well as the possibilities for life, the context of care, and the meaning of death.
When Offered Spring.
Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: at least one course in Social Sciences or Humanities.
Distribution Category (GLC-AS, SSC-AS) (CA-AG, SBA-AG)
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4682, ANTHR 7682, ASRC 7682, BSOC 4682
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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