NTH 020S: Culture, Health and Healing

2025-26

Units: 4

Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour

Catalog page 121

Description: Surveys health, disease, curing, and nutrition in a cross-cultural perspective. Covers how different cultural groups consider disease, health maintenance, and healing; how traditional beliefs about health and nutrition arise; and what one can and cannot learn from traditional health-seeking practices.

Credit: Credit is awarded for one of the following ANTH 020S or ANTH 020.