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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course is an introduction to the cross-cultural study of bio-medical ethics. It examines moral foundations of the science and practice of western bio-medicine through case studies of abortion, contraception, cloning, organ transplantation, and other issues. It also evaluates challenges that new medical technologies pose to the practice
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- anthropology
- anthropology
- cross-cultural study
- bio-medical ethics
- moral foundations
- science
- western bio-medicine
- case studies
- abortion
- contraception
- cloning
- organ transplantation
- medical technologies
- practice
- availability
- medical services
- globe
- kinship
- personhood
- critique
- anthropological
- feminist
- legal
- religious
- theorists.
- theori
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course examines the contemporary problem of political violence and the way that human rights have been conceived as a means to protect and promote freedom, peace and justice for citizens against the abuses of the state.
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- anthropology
- anthropology
- political
- violence
- human rights
- freedom
- peace
- justice
- citizens
- state
- historical debates
- cultural
- natural
- western european
- moral values
- differences
- culture
- religion
- gender
- relationships
- individuals
- collective groups
- ethnography
- case studies
- conflict
- globe
- war crimes tribunals
- truth commissions
- individu
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Culture, Embodiment, and the Senses will provide an historical and cross-cultural analysis of the politics of sensory experience. The subject will address western philosophical debates about mind, brain, emotion, and the body and the historical value placed upon sight, reason, and rationality, versus smell, taste, and touch as acceptable mo
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- anthropology
- anthropology
- culture
- embodiment
- senses
- historical
- cross-cultural analysis
- politics
- sensory experience
- western philosophical debates
- mind
- brain
- emotion
- body
- sight
- reason
- rationality
- smell
- taste
- touch
- knowing
- knowledge production
- scientific interpretations
- western philosophical
- physiological models
- individual physiolog
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This class examines how anthropology and speculative fiction (SF) each explore ideas about culture and society, technology, morality, and life in "other" worlds. We investigate this convergence of interest through analysis of SF in print, film, and other media. Concepts include traditional and contemporary anthropological topics, including
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- anthropology
- speculative fiction
- vampires
- cyborgs
- utopias
- dystopias
- time travel
- sexuality
- gender
- futurism
- reproduction
- extraterrestrials
- race
- religion
- alienation
- cultural studies
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This course provides an exploration of colonial and postcolonial clashes between theories of healing and embodiment in the African world and those of western bio-medicine. It examines how Afro-Atlantic religious traditions have challenged western conceptions of illness, healing, and the body and have also offered alternative notions of mora
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- anthropology
- medicine
- religion
- politics africa
- african diaspora
- colonial
- postcolonial clashes
- theories of healing
- embodiment
- western
- bio-medicine
- afro-atlantic
- traditions
- illness
- healing
- body
- alternative
- morality
- rationality
- kinship
- gender
- sexuality
- imperial
- power
- global
- health
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