ALST 371 AX: Medicine, Health and Healing in Africa (Spring 2025)

Designed as a reading seminar, students are introduced to major themes and the ways in which scholars approach them. Students read and discuss several recent books of history and anthropology on varied topics relevant to medicine, health and healing in Africa. These range from historical forms of healing to training African medical students to the history of malaria to the complexity of pharmacological discoveries and patenting to psychiatry and decolonization.