Course Details
Country:
Hong Kong
Institution:
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Course Title:
From Madness to Mental Health
Course Number:
ANTH 2321
Course Description:
This course examines mental illness and mental health as subjective experiences, social processes, and objects of scientific knowledge and practice. It invites students to explore human experiences that are labelled as abnormal or pathological, to understand the expert knowledge and technologies employed to remedy these conditions, and to think about the complex relationships between them and the broader social and cultural contexts. Readings are drawn from psychiatric anthropology or anthropology of mental health, clinical case studies, and memoirs. They are chosen to reflect an interdisciplinary scope that includes social sciences, psychiatry itself, and the layman’s/patient’s perspective.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
ANTH 396
Attachment Files:
From Madness to Mental Health.pdf
