The Department of Anthropology at Case Western Reserve University announces its inaugural lecture series in Medical Anthropology and Global Health. This year’s theme is Global Health, Culture, and Change.
In recent years the rapid pace of globalization has fundamentally changed the nature of human behavior, pathogens, the interaction between humans and pathogens, and the natural and social environment in which such interactions occur; thereby fundamentally affecting both global health and the study of global health and disease. The myriad of global health issues which have emerged in the last part of the 20th century lend urgency to the need to understand the intersection of culture, change, and global health.
The program in Medical Anthropology and Global Health at CWRU seeks to challenge familiar dichotomies that dominate thinking about health issues, such as biological versus sociocultural, psychological versus physical, rural versus urban, and particularly the deep-seated tendency to treat separately the problems of the so-called developing and developed nations. We argue that these dichotomies undermine understanding of health and illness throughout the world and hinders development of unified conceptual models. The lecture series in Global Health, Culture, and Change will feature scholars at the forefront of new perspectives in global health.
Upcoming lectures soon to be announced.
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