CHERRYPICKERDe Anza College
ANTH 8
Medical Anthropology: Methods and Practice · 4 units · used in 3 transfer pathways
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- De Anza catalogcourse record · 2025-2026
- FHDA class listingsFall 2026 sections
- Cherrypickercourse matching and pathway links — our analysis
About this course
Medical anthropology seeks to understand how health, illness and healing practices are culturally constructed and mediated. Students will investigate global, cross-cultural and local issues related to health, sickness, healing, epidemiology, aging and dying from an applied and bio-cultural perspective, using anthropological theory and ethnographic fieldwork methods. Students will be exposed to diverse cultural interpretations of health, sickness and healing, the importance of viewing medical systems as social systems, understanding the socio-cultural context of medical decision making and therapy management, the principles of cultural competency, and the recurrent and ongoing problems of socioeconomic inequality and ecological disruptions that have an impact upon the differential distribution and treatment of human diseases.
Sections this term
Fall 2026 · updated Sep 3, 3:30 PM UTCANTH 8Medical Anthropology: Methods and PracticeWaitlist1 section · 0 seats reported · 1 instructor
- CRN 28192 · 50Waitlist · 0
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Prerequisites
The De Anza catalog lists no prerequisite for this course.
Advisory: “ENGL C1000 or ENGL C1000H or ESL D005.”
Transfer pathways that use ANTH 8
ASSIST maps ANTH 8 to a requirement in 3 published pathways from De Anza College.
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