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| Campus | Haverford |
| Semester | Fall 2022 |
| Registration ID | HLTHH333A001 |
| Course Title | The Anthropology of Migration and Global Mental Health: Politics, Epistemologies, Critiques |
| Credit | 1.00 |
| Department | Health Studies |
| Instructor | D'Arcy,Michael |
| Times and Days | W 01:30pm-04:00pm
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| Room Location | LNKL205 |
| Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2795 How should anthropologists think about the relationship between migration and ongoing debates in the international psychiatric community about global mental health in theory and practice? What happens when both people and ideas move across political borders, between institutions of care, and through the historical and intellectual borderlands that sit between different healing traditions? This course explores these and other related questions through a variety of readings in sociocultural and medical anthropology with a focus on the subjects of the politics of asylum, medical humanitarianism, and transcultural psychiatry.; Crosslisted: HLTH.; Pre-requisite(s): 200 level course in Anthropology, Heath Studies, History, Sociology, Political science, or Peace Justice and Human Rights.; Lottery Preference: Anthropology and Health Studies seniors. ; Enrollment Limit: 15.00 Social Science, B: Analysis of the Social World (; Hav: SO, B) |
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