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Culture, Health and Sexuality in the Developing World - ANTH322
This unit explores health in developing countries through a focus on culture and sexuality. Students will learn about cultural dimensions of disease transmission and access to services. We examine cross-cultural understandings of sexual identity and practices, and how diversity complicates international public health programs. We consider how intimate relations become a key vector of disease spread in different times and places. We see that sexuality remains a key underpinning through which 'third world' populations are both the focus of cross-cultural desires and the targets of health regulations seeking to police sexual contact and disease spread. We then examine global health issues such as family planning, maternal and infant health, and HIV/AIDS and explore their links to gender and sexuality in developing countries. We consider how specific health dilemmas are impacted by migration, poverty, marginalisation, state and donor policies, service provision and community mobilisation.
| Credit Points: | 3 |
| When Offered: | TBD - To be determined |
| Staff Contact(s): | Dr Chris Lyttleton |
| Prerequisites: |
39cp or admission to GDipArts
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| NCCW(s): | ANTH377 |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Anthropology Faculty of Arts |
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