Violence and Healing, Pandemics and Everyday Life: Mental Health and Illness in Africa
HIST 1924
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Description
An introduction to African perspectives on mental illness, exploring the development and practice of psychiatry as a medical field in Africa, examining the grey areas within psychiatric knowledge, and engaging the ongoing debates about the interface between race, culture and psychiatry. Will review African therapeutic systems; witchcraft, causation and mental health; substance abuse; violence and mental illness; and more recent links between HIV/AIDS, loss and depression.
Course Notes
This course meets the "Beyond North America" History Concentration requirement or may be used to fulfill the seminar requirement.
School
Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits
4
Cross Reg
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
Department
History
Course Component
Conference Course
General Education
N/A
Quantitative Reasoning with Data
N/A
Divisional Distribution
Social Sciences
Course Level
For Undergraduate and Graduate Students
