Emory University is a private university in Atlanta, Georgia. Originally EU was founded in 1836 as Emory College in Oxford, Georgia. In 1915, the college moved to the metropolitan Atlanta and changed names.
Courses
Web Link: Botanical Medicine and Health (HLTH 385-000, 4 credit hours) (Spring 2012) Mankind has long recognized that plants are extremely useful as a source of medicine. Medical traditions based on botanical drug sources can be found in all human cultures and date back to prehistory. In this course, both ancient and modern day botanical traditions across many cultures will be discussed as they pertain to medicine. Web Link: Food, Health and Society (HLTH 385-001, 4 credits) (Spring 2012) Human health is intrinsically linked to dietary practices. Plants, in particular, may be used both as medicine and food, and it can often be difficult to draw a line between the two groups: food may be used as medicine and vice versa. The lens of ethnopharmacology can be used to gain an integrated biocultural perspective on foods, encompassing not only the substantive (or physical) qualities, but also the intangible (symbolic). Web Link: Syllabus Biological and cultural adaptations to disease, the
role of specific diseases in evolution, social epidemiological patterns
related to culture, contemporary issues in disease control, and economic
development. Considers a variety of diseases including malaria,
tuberculosis, AIDS, and malnutrition. Web Link: Core Issues in Global Health: Comm. Oriented Immigrant Health (GHCS 300R-001, 4 credits) (Fall 2012) Basic global health knowledge and concepts will be integrated with
skills to enable students to become active participants in their
community’s health. Based on our previous and ongoing involvement with
some community based participatory programs in local health agencies and
among recently resettled refugee populations in Atlanta, we will
understand participatory problem solving that interlinks cultural,
epidemiological, political-economic and ecological dimensions of health
among few immigrant populations. Some questions to explore can be: Why
do we want to work with a particular community, what are the benefits to
us & the community, what is the mutual benefit? Web Link: Core Issues in Global Health: Cross-Cultural Issues in Mental Health (GHCS 300R-008, 4 credits) (Fall 2012) This course critically engages concepts of mental health and mental
illness through an interdisciplinary perspective that pulls from
psychological and medical anthropology, history, psychology, public
health, disability studies, and biology. We will examine various
psychiatric conditions across levels of analysis, beginning with the
individual, then at the community level, and finally in a macro,
socio-political perspective. The class will analyze mental health
definitions, treatments, outcomes, advocacy, and nosology in Western and
non-Western approaches. While particular Western diagnoses–such as
schizophrenia, autism, and depression–will be critically examined,
students will also engage with concepts of psychopathology broadly, as
well as culture specific syndromes. |  Web Link: EU Web Link: Ethnobotanica Faculty
Web Link: Cassandra Quave Web Link: Melvin J. Konner Web Link: Peter J. Brown Modules
Web Link: Teach Ethnobotany
This lab module was given as a Workshop during the OSN's Teaching Tuesday Symposium and Workshops held at the Society for Economic Botany in Frostburg, MD (July, 2012). |