ANTHROPOLOGY 5701: Health and Healing in Latin America

Dr. Barbara Piperata in the Department of Anthropology has developed a new course with broad appeal to graduate and advanced undergraduate students with a Latin American focus, including students in Latino Studies.

This course takes a critical biocultural approach and examines major health issues and healing practices in a specific geographic region of the world – Latin America and the Caribbean. The course draws primarily upon anthropological and public health literatures but demands a multidisciplinary lens as it explores how factors such as economics, geography and history combine with modern biologies in shaping health. 

The course is scheduled to be taught in the fall (TuTh 3:55 - 5:15). Please spread the word and/or consider signing up!

Preliminary syllabus available upon request (piperata.1@osu.edu).