ANTHRO 136MMedical Anthropology
Anthropology · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Medical anthropology examines affliction and healing across different cultural and historical contexts. Study of complex interactions between biology, culture, ideology, and society in construction of medical facts. Topics include disability; embodiment; health effects of racism, poverty, and war; humanitarianism; illness narratives; infectious diseases; medicalization; mental health; and organ transplantation. Students gain better grasp of theories and methods of medical anthropology, and ability to critically reflect on their own and others’ experiences of disease and healing, as well as on representations of human suffering and medical technologies.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Fall 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.