The
following information was taken directly from Brunel University's
printed postgraduate prospectus.
"Medical
anthropology can be described as the study of cultural
beliefs and social practices associated with the origin,
recognition and management of health and illness. It covers
not only issues concerned with 'lay' or 'folk' understandings
of the causes and the management of disease ad other forms
of sickness, but also the more informal systems of health
care that exist worldwide (such as self-treatment,folk
healers, shamans, traditional birth attendants, and alternative
practitioners) as well as those associated with professional
Western science-based medicine. In addition it concerns
issues that relate to different cultural views of the
self in health and disease, as well as shared beliefs,
images and practices associated with perceptions of the
human body.
The Brunel MSC was the first taught Master's degree dedicated
to medical anthropology in Europe, and is one of the largest
European social anthropology programmes."
Modules include:
• Clinically Applied Medical Anthropology and
International Health
• Ethnographic Research Methods
• Body and Person: Anthropological Perspectives
• Anthropology of Public Health
• Dissertation
If you may have further questions or concerns about this
program at Brunel University in west London or for other
programs please contact
representative Popabroad for more information.
