Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Medicine, Health, and Healing in Africa
Term
2020A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC311401
Course number integer
311
Meeting times
T 01:30 PM-04:30 PM
Meeting location
BENN 406
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
David K. Amponsah
Description
This seminar course will examine how sub-Saharan Africans have interpreted and dealt with issues of health, healing, and medicine under colonial and postcolonial regimes. It will also look at how various social, economic, religious, and political factors have impacted health and healing on the continent and shaped African responses. Class discussions will center around both general themes affecting health and healing in Africa as well as case studies drawn from historical and anthropological works.
Course number only
311
Cross listings
HIST376401
Use local description
No