HIST376 - HISTORY OF HEALTH AND HEALING IN AFRICA

Status
O
Activity
SEM
Title (text only)
HIST376 - HISTORY OF HEALTH AND HEALING IN AFRICA
Term
2019A
Subject area
HIST
Section number only
401
Section ID
HIST376401
Meeting times
W 0200PM-0500PM
Meeting location
FISHER-BENNETT HALL 139
Instructors
AMPONSAH, DAVID
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
376
Use local description
No
LPS Course
false
Major Concentrations
Major/Minor Requirements Fulfilled