Prerequisites: ANTH 001 or ANTH 001H or consent of instructor
Description: Examines how cancer has been perceived and described by biomedical and public health practition- ers, anthropologists, and social scientists. Interdisciplinary approach focuses on the historical, political, and cultural dimensions that inform our understanding of cancer in particular and disease in general. Topics include illness narratives, risk, epi- demiology, and unequal disease distribution and treat- ment.