Section: Taught Masters Programmes

MSc in the Anthropology of Health & Illness

Courses

You will take two compulsory courses – the Anthropology of Health and Healing and Anthropology and International Health. The course is further tailored to individual interests with the choice of two core courses and two optional courses, chosen from within the Social Anthropology department, the School of Social and Political Sciences and Public Health. All courses will be examined with a combination of essays and assessed course work.

Two core courses are chosen from:

  • Sociological Approaches to Health and Illness
  • Current Issues in Health and Illness Research
  • Anthropological Theory
  • Consumption, Exchange, Technology
  • Culture and Power
  • Belief, Thought and Language

Examples of optional courses (choose two) include:

Dissertation

The dissertation offers a chance to get to grips with a topic of the student’s own choosing. Undertaken upon completion of taught elements, the dissertation is supervised by an appropriate member of academic staff.

Previous dissertation topics include:

  • Health as Society: Functions and Efficacy of Balinese Healing
  • Emergence of Post-Traumatic Subjectivity. An Anthropological Critique of Medicalisation of Political Violence in Sri Lanka
  • “Creating National Health and Corporate Wealth”. Genzyme, Gaucher Disease and the Challenges of Enzyme Replacement Therapy within the British National Health Service.

For current staff and their research and teaching interests visit:

This page was published on 11 March 2008


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