ANTH 227 Lecture : ANTH 227 Syllabus.docx
21 Nov 2012
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Instructor: tobias rees email: tobias. rees@mcgill. ca office hours: mondays, 3:00 4:00 pm. The aim of this class is to introduce students to one of the most exciting and fastest growing domains of anthropology, the anthropology of medicine. To be more precise: the class is designed to make participants familiar with the various ways in which, over the last forty years, anthropologists have come to study medicine. By way of addressing these questions, we will work towards an inventory of scripts the anthropology of medicine has produced and relied on. Note that such a historical and conceptual approach will inevitably arrive at the cutting edge: the open, largely undetermined space that we call the present. This space is, at least partially, shaped by new medical ways of thinking and knowing ways that have outgrown the scripts anthropologists have come to rely on.
