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History and Anthropology of Medicine and Biology

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited StatesSTS.330
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2013English
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This course explores recent historical and anthropological approaches to the study of medicine and biology. Topics might include interaction of disease and society; science, colonialism, and international health; impact of new technologies on medicine and the life sciences; neuroscience and psychiatry; race, biology and medicine. Specific emphasis varies from year to year.

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