ANTHRO 3246: Medicine and Disease in the Ancient World

ANTHRO Department University of Missouri-St Louis 3.0 credits

Course Description

This course explores medicine and disease through case studies from civilizations of the ancient world such as Egypt, Greece, and Peru. Students will discuss how these cultures conceptualized disease, and, in turn, how they contended with illness. This course addresses different ways of identifying disease through medical texts, art, and human remains.

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