In this seminar, we will investigate the relationship between body and environment in its many manifestations. Through engagement with key concepts in environmental and medical anthropology and social studies of science, we will ask: what is the relationship between environmental injustice and health inequity? How are relationships of power - such as colonialism, racism, and war - also environmental projects? And how do we study altered environments and ill or injured bodies in just ways? This course prepares students to critically engage questions of environmental and human health, with a particular focus on scholarship from beyond the United States.
5 units · Letter or Credit/No Credit · GER: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
In this seminar, we will investigate the relationship between body and environment in its many manifestations. Through engagement with key concepts in environmental and medical anthropology and social studies of science, we will ask: what is the relationship between environmental injustice and health inequity? How are relationships of power - such as colonialism, racism, and war - also environmental projects? And how do we study altered environments and ill or injured bodies in just ways? This course prepares students to critically engage questions of environmental and human health, with a particular focus on scholarship from beyond the United States.
Offered in Autumn 2025 at Stanford University.