2023_24
Educational guide 
Faculty of Arts
A A A 
english 
Medical Anthropology and Global Health (2020)
 Subjects
  MEDICAL SYSTEMS
   Contents
Topic Sub-topic
Module 1.- Medical systems, ethnomedicine and the biomedical sector 1. Medical systems as a subject of study in ethnomedicine
2. Ethnomedicine and the study of traditional medicines of peoples
3. The biomedical system as part of western and traditional health culture: examples and cases
4. Socio-cultural processes and body representations of the health, disease and care process
Module 2.- Medical pluralism in Africa 1. Medical pluralism, some reflections and concepts
1.1. Theorizing and discussions on the concept of "medical pluralism"
1.2. Medical pluralism and health policies
2. Diversity of African medical systems
2.1. "Traditional medicine" in Africa
2.2. Medical pluralism in Africa
Module 3. - Medical systems and spirituality: Pentecostalism and Ayurveda 1. Introduction: medical systems and religion
2. Models, knowledge and forms of care
3. Pentecostalism
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Models and processes of conversion
3.3. Disease and therapeutic processes
4.3. Transnationalization. New ethnic churches
4. Ayurveda