MSc Anthropology of Health and Illness

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University of Edinburgh

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• Objectives
  This programme is intended to provide students with the tools to develop an advanced understanding of health, illness and medicine in different social and cultural settings. It aims to: * expose students to the key debates i contemporary medical anthropological practice; * provide practitioners with tools for understanding health and healing through social theory; * offer training in anthropological research methods for health-related settings; * provide students with an understanding of the possibilities and limits of medical anthropology within broader debates about global health.
• Academic title
  MSc Anthropology of Health and Illness
• Course description
  Learning Outcomes
  
  Graduates of this programme will be equipped with the conceptual and methodological skills to engage with the broader debates and dilemmas of contemporary global-health practices.
  
  How You Will Be Taught
  
  Teaching methods will combine lectures, seminars and tutorials, plus a combination of essays and assessed coursework. There will also be an original research dissertation (15,000 words) on a chosen topic.
  
  The programme works in close collaboration with medical sociology within the School of Social and Political Studies and has links to centres of research excellence in health and social sciences within the University.

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