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This is an archived course. A more recent version may be available at ocw.mit.edu.
A young patient observes a medicine man (on the right) and helper prepare a sandpainting as part of her healing ceremony. (Image courtesy of the National Library of Medicine, Navajo Area Indian Health Service Today, IHS, 1980.)
Prof. Jean Jackson
21A.215
Fall 2008
Undergraduate
This course looks at medicine from a cross-cultural perspective, focusing on the human, as opposed to biological, side of things. Students learn how to analyze various kinds of medical practice as cultural systems. Particular emphasis is placed on Western (bio-) medicine; students examine how biomedicine constructs disease, health, body, and mind, and how it articulates with other institutions, national and international.
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