Contemporary Issues in Medical Anthropology
Course, Master's level, 5KA425
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Spring 2027 Spring 2027, Uppsala, 50%, On-campus, English
- Location
- Uppsala
- Pace of study
- 50%
- Teaching form
- On-campus
- Instructional time
- Daytime
- Study period
- 18 January 2027–24 March 2027
- Language of instruction
- English
- Entry requirements
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A Bachelor's degree, equivalent to a Swedish Kandidatexamen, from an internationally recognised university
- Selection
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Higher education credits (maximum 285 credits)
- Fees
- If you are not a citizen of a European Union (EU) or European Economic Area (EEA) country, or Switzerland, you are required to pay application and tuition fees.
- First tuition fee instalment: SEK 14,250
- Total tuition fee: SEK 14,250
- Application deadline
- 15 October 2026
- Application code
- UU-02014
Admitted or on the waiting list?
- Registration period
- 21 December 2026–11 January 2027
- Information on registration from the department
Spring 2027 Spring 2027, Uppsala, 50%, On-campus, English For exchange students
- Location
- Uppsala
- Pace of study
- 50%
- Teaching form
- On-campus
- Instructional time
- Daytime
- Study period
- 18 January 2027–24 March 2027
- Language of instruction
- English
- Entry requirements
-
A Bachelor's degree, equivalent to a Swedish Kandidatexamen, from an internationally recognised university
Admitted or on the waiting list?
- Registration period
- 21 December 2026–11 January 2027
- Information on registration from the department
About the course
Health, illness and medicine are ubiquitous in contemporary public debates but are rarely investigated critically. Today, medical anthropology faces novel and fruitful challenges in its relation to biomedicine, public health and international health policy, whether as fields of investigation or as areas of collaboration. How, specifically, can medical anthropology contribute to research on health and wellbeing in the global north and the global south? We will examine the challenges medical anthropologists face in research collaborations with public health, international health organisations, and medical professionals, by for example investigating how biomedicine's authoritative knowledge silences patients' experience, especially when these belong to marginalised or underrepresented groups. Or by investigating how economic power of pharmaceutical companies impact the access to care of deprived citizens and eschew geopolitical dimensions of health for people in the global south. An important field is also to engage and give prominence to local epistemologies and practices, whether they are presented as alternative or complementary to hegemonic biomedical structures. This course lets you examine issues such as 'the body', digital health, mental health, hospital ethnography, pharmaceuticals, anatomy, and technologies for assisted reproduction.