SOBS 606* APPLIED MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

This course focuses on the complex aspects of health, biology, the environment, culture, and human social relationships and actions. The course will adopt both applied theoretical research and explicit theoretical frameworks to study the social production of health and illness. The production of knowledge and the notion that the community can become an arena in which social and behavioural matters concerning health and illness are played out will be stressed. Emphasis will be placed on the contribution of applied medical anthropology in the arena of health and development with particular attention on reproductive health, malaria control, TB and HIV/AIDS