Certificate in Intercultural Communication - Health and Culture
SOSA 2933 Health and Culture
CREDIT HOURS: 3
This course explores health and illness aetiology through culture and time with a focus on ancient and pre-capitalist societies in South Asia, Latin America, Africa, Middle East and Aboriginal gifting economies. Topics may vary from year to year but we will invariably explore global sensibilities of feeling healthy and “well” through case studies highlighting ancient science and medicine, health taxonomies, oral history, ethnography, literature, poetry, music, oral genres, pregnancy; birth and rearing of children; senescence and death. The weaknesses and strengths of Canada's increasingly privatized selective healthcare system become clear when comparing it with the achievements made in societies that provided healthcare as a basic right.
FORMAT: Lecture
EXCLUSIONS: SOSA 2400X/Y.06