| Purpose: The primary objective is to develop students' ability to critically evaluate information in an African context and to introduce approaches and theories on the Anthropology of Health. In addition, to enable students to analyse ways in which illnesses, health, and healing is viewed globally and locally, and to convey ways in which diseases/pandemics such as Tuberculosis, Covid-19, among others, are approached. To impart knowledge on methods of healing as they are applied in diverse socio-cultural contexts. It is imperative for medical students, who primarily study anthropology of health, to learn, view, and understand methods of healing in their own and other socio-culturally diverse spaces and analyse its impact on social suffering. To encourage them to rethink notions that Western methods of healing are superior while indigenous health, healing rituals, and illness are considered to be inferior. The objective is to introduce a theoretical analysis that analyzes health, healing, rituals, and illness in the African context. |
