Academics
Health, Medicine, and Spirituality

Course

Subject

HHUM

Number

288

Term

Winter
2024

Department

Health Humanities

This course examines how spirituality and religion have informed approaches to health and medicine from the 19th century to the present, including understandings of disease, illness, health, sexuality, and the body. Topics may include spiritual and/or religious concepts of health and sickness; meditation, prayer, and healing; "alternative" medicine; Indigenous approaches to health and medicine; mental health and spiritual practice; and religion and health care justice. Students are introduced to a variety of research methods that will help them identify, understand, and critically assess the complex boundaries that exist between modern medicine and spirituality.

 

Held with RS 288

 

Offered on campus

Section

001

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