{"id":65,"date":"2017-06-08T14:13:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T21:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.palomar.edu\/pages\/amobilia\/?page_id=65"},"modified":"2018-05-31T12:22:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T19:22:15","slug":"medical-anthropology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/amobilia\/medical-anthropology\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Anthropology: Culture, Illness and Healing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Palomar College Catalog Description<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>ANTH 137 Medical Anthropology: Culture, Illness and Healing (3)<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>3 hours lecture<br \/>\n<\/em><strong><em>Transfer acceptability: <\/em><\/strong><em>CSU<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This course is a cross-cultural survey of health, illness and healing in small-scale\u00a0societies as well as modern societies from a cultural, biological, and ecological\u00a0perspective. Topics covered include perceptions of the body, perceptions of disease,\u00a0life phases, culture-specific syndromes, healing practices, healers, nutrition,\u00a0and healing and medical systems.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)<\/span><\/strong><\/em><em><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/em>Upon successful completion of the course the student will be able to:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Understand and apply the holistic nature of anthropology and the concept of cultural relativism particularly with health-related beliefs and practices.<\/li>\n<li>Describe and explain standards of health and the causation, classification, prevention and treatment of illness\/disease from a cultural, biological and ecological perspective.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Have a broad understanding of health and illness\/disease and the interconnections between body perceptions, nutrition, life phases, social variables, healers, medical systems, and public policy.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 24px\"><em>Refer to this site for further information about SLOs: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.palomar.edu\/slo\/\">http:\/\/www2.palomar.edu\/slo\/<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palomar College Catalog Description ANTH 137 Medical Anthropology: Culture, Illness and Healing (3) 3 hours lecture Transfer acceptability: CSU This course is a cross-cultural survey of health, illness and healing in small-scale\u00a0societies as well as modern societies from a cultural, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/amobilia\/medical-anthropology\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-65","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pf4oZI-13","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/amobilia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/amobilia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/amobilia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/amobilia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/amobilia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/amobilia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/amobilia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65\/revisions\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/amobilia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}