This course introduces recent theoretical
perspectives and ethnographic work which
explore how the political and medical authorities
as well as the lay people, discuss the effects of
globalization and global encounters on health
inequalities, and how the global and local health
policies address these inequalities. It covers such
topics as the role of global health institutions in
addressing the health inequalities, tensions
between states’ priorities and global impositions
in defining and applying health policies,
competition between biomedicine and alternative
medical systems, local interpretations of global
medical technologies and local
conceptualizations of global epidemics. The
course also includes nuanced approaches to the
global and local ethical issues around the body,
gender, life, illness, birth, death and
pharmaceutical industry
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