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Disease and Health: Culture, Society, and Ethics

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States21A.215
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2012English
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This course examines how medicine is practiced cross-culturally, with particular emphasis on Western biomedicine. Students analyze medical practice as a cultural system, focusing on the human, as opposed to the biological, side of things. Also considered is how people in different cultures think of disease, health, body, and mind.

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