教學目標：
This course offers a broad introduction to the field of medical anthropology. The goal is to encourage students to explore some of the key concepts and approaches that currently characterizes the field. Particularly emphasized in this course is the close interconnection of culture and nature, and cultural construction of health-related activities in human societies. Students are expected to critically examine a variety of health phenomena from an ecological perspective.

授課對象：大四至博士班學生。限15人。

授課方式：講授及討論

評分方式：
Class participation (20%)
Assignments and presentation (30%)
Mid-term report /exam (25%)
Term paper (25%)

參考教材：於第一堂課發給。

預修課程：無。

課程進度表：（暫定）
I. Introduction and overview
10/01 The field of anthropology and medical anthropology

II. The biocultural study of health and disease
10/08 Human evolution and adaptation
10/15 Infectious disease (I): history and ecology
10/22 Infectious disease (II): cultural and societal
responses
10/29 Nutrition and dietary behavior (I): Ecology and
economy
11/05 Nutrition and dietary behavior (II): belief,
structure, and practices
11/19 Socio-cultural change and non-infectious disease
(I): cultural contact and maladjustment
11/26 Socio-cultural change and non-infectious disease
(II): psycho-social adjustment in modern society

III. The socio-cultural study of health care
12/03 Introduction to health care system/medical system
12/10 Cultural construction of health concepts and
symptom perceptions
12/17 Health seeking process
12/24 Healers and professionalism
12/31 The therapeutically process and healer-clients
relationships
01/07 Ethnomedicine and medical Pluralism
01/14 Student presentation