Understandings of health and illness vary widely. Taking a comparative historical approach, this class examines how an individual's interactions with sociocultural and physical environments influence the experiences of health and illness. Topics include symbolic healing, biomedicine as a cultural system, disease and international development, and the global politics of AIDS and other pandemics. Dual listed with ANTH 5350. An analysis of selected problems of economics theory.
Topics vary with student interest and with current stress in economics theory.
The gains from specialization and trade are studied, as are explanations of trade patterns among countries, policies affecting trade such as tariffs, quotas, tax breaks, subsidies, cartels and price stabilization plans. Topics on labor migration and multinational corporations are covered. The focus is on foreign exchange markets, balance of payments analysis and effects of international trade and capital flows on the domestic economy. Policies to correct payment deficits, gold, international liquidity and international financial institutions are studied. Conceptually examines explanations underlying location of agricultural and industrial activities, as well as spatial dynamics governing these systems.