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MSc Medical Anthropology

  • DeadlineStudy Details: 1 year - 2 years

Masters Degree Description

Join a cohort of clinicians, anthropologists and social scientists exploring themes across disease, health and medicine on this dual pathway training in interpretive, critical, clinical and biosocial approaches to medical anthropology. With a grounding in both theoretical and applied aspects of the field, you’ll be equipped for a wide range of careers that engage with and impact pressing and profound real-world issues – across academia, clinical services, social services, government or NGOs.

Entry Requirements

A minimum of an upper second-class Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard.

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Fees

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Student Destinations

Medical Anthropology MSc graduates work in a diverse range of industry sectors including health & social care, teaching & other educational activities, policy & government, scientific research, development & analysis, academic research and HE, IT, technology & telecommunications.

Module Details

Compulsory modules

  • Medical Anthropology: Dissertation
  • Medical Anthropology
  • Biosocial Anthropology, Health and Environment
  • Research Methods in Medical Anthropology
  • Research Methods in Biosocial Medical Anthropology
  • Palaeoanthropology
  • Informatic Cultures: The Anthropology of Data, Algorithms and Computation
  • Primate Anatomy, Evolution and Environments
  • Anthropology of Technics and Technology
  • Human Behavioural Ecology
  • Anthropology of Religion
  • Primate Behaviour and Ecology
  • Art in the Public Sphere
  • Aspects of Applied Medical Anthropology
  • Psychological Anthropology and Cultural Psychology
  • Ecology of Human Groups
  • Introduction to Statistics for Social Research
  • The Anthropology of Fashion
  • Evolutionary Medicine
  • Multispecies Ethnography in the Anthropocene
  • Nutrition, Health and Culture
  • Visualizing Others: Colonial and Postcolonial Visual Culture
  • Multimodal Anthropology
  • Anthropology of Crime
  • The Anthropology of Nationalism, Ethnicity and Race
  • The Anthropology of Violent Aftermaths
  • Anthropology and Policy

Optional modules

  • Palaeoanthropology
  • Informatic Cultures: The Anthropology of Data, Algorithms and Computation
  • Primate Anatomy, Evolution and Environments
  • Anthropology of Technics and Technology
  • Human Behavioural Ecology
  • Anthropology of Religion
  • Primate Behaviour and Ecology
  • Art in the Public Sphere
  • Aspects of Applied Medical Anthropology
  • Psychological Anthropology and Cultural Psychology
  • Ecology of Human Groups
  • Introduction to Statistics for Social Research
  • The Anthropology of Fashion
  • Evolutionary Medicine
  • Multispecies Ethnography in the Anthropocene
  • Nutrition, Health and Culture
  • Visualizing Others: Colonial and Postcolonial Visual Culture
  • Multimodal Anthropology
  • Anthropology of Crime
  • The Anthropology of Nationalism, Ethnicity and Race
  • The Anthropology of Violent Aftermaths
  • Anthropology and Policy

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