Mar 28, 2024  
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HI 110 - African Health and Healing


The course introduces the concept of the social basis of health and healing and the figure of the popular healer in Africa and the African Diaspora from the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. Topics include indigenous knowledge, colonial medical practices, postcolonial health care, and infectious diseases, such as HIV and the AIDS epidemic.

Note: Meets Historical Reasoning Learning Outcome (HIST) and the Global Engagement Learning Outcome (GLOB)

Four credits.



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