ANTH 1797 - MOUNTAINS AND MEDICAL SYSTEMS

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
India is a social, political and economic environment in which a broad range of South Asian medical systems have grown and developed over the course of several years. In the past 150 years these systems have been institutionalized and professionalized within the framework of colonial and national medical and public health policy. Many of these systems are intimately connected to the environment, and to the conceptualization, categorization, production and consumption of natural resources. This course focuses on non-biomedical systems of medicine: Ayurveda, Unani, siddha, Tibetan medicine, yoga and nature cure and homeopathy, as each one of these is supported and regulated by the government of India. The purpose of the course is not to evaluate the effectiveness or medical value of these systems; it is to understand how these medical systems fit into a range of social, political, ecological, botanical and economic contexts. Given that a number of these medical systems are intimately linked to Himalayan botanical and environmental knowledge, the course will focus on the relationship between South Asian medical systems and mountain ecology.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Global Issues General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req.

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