ANTH 323 - Language and Medicine

How does language shape the medical sphere? How does the medical sphere shape language? Fusing two anthropological subfields, medical anthropology and linguistic anthropology, coursework provides concepts, tools, and training to understand and analyze the intersections between language, medicine, and society. Students explore how patients, medical professionals and other people communicate in healthcare settings. Students also examine the role of language and perception in people’s understandings of the body, care, and healing. Topics include health communicative justice, visual/graphic communication, language ideologies, translation, narrative, metaphors of illness, and more. Offering an applied dimension, students engage with an international health NGO document archive, health media/communication materials, and information systems.

Credits: 1.0
Crosslisted:

GPEH 323

Corequisite: None
Prerequisites: None
Major/Minor Restrictions: None
Class Restriction: No First-Year
Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.&Agents
Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges
Core Component: None

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