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ANTH 390 Mental Health, Psychiatry, and Culture (CHUA, FALL 2017) Even as mental illness is now increasingly framed in neurological terms and as a global health concern, anthropological and other social science perspectives suggest that psychiatric diagnosis is deeply contingent, and that mental illness experiences are richly variable and cultural in nature. This special topics course in medical anthropology explores mental illness as subjective experience, social process, key cultural symbol, and object of intervention and expert knowledge. Our questions include: Does mental illness vary across cultural and social settings? How do psychiatric ways of diagnosing and treating mental illness shape people’s subjective experience of their affliction? What does this contingency mean for the movement for global mental health? We consider these and other questions in light of the emergent realities of contemporary life that medical anthropologists endeavor to make sense of: expanding pharmaceutical markets, new therapeutic technologies, humanitarian interventionism, and shifting forms of subjectivity in our globalizing world. ANTH 390 Health and Medicine in the American South (KING, FALL 2017) The American South is experienced and imagined in a multitude of ways. Everyday lives in the South are continuously borne out by this region's oral history, literature, music, food, art, and material culture. Drawing from these sources, this course will focus on how Southern bodies have experienced health and illness. We will pose the questions: How can we understand the history and culture of a region through the experience of health and healthcare among its people? Using the approaches of anthropology, we will consider the individual, social, and political dimensions of medicalized bodies in the American South starting with indigenous and slave histories up to the current-day.