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Medicine, Religion and Politics in Africa and the African Diaspora
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- Instructor
- Prof. Erica James
- Term
- Spring 2005
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 25 other files · 3 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 21A.460J Medicine, Religion and Politics in Africa and the African Diaspora, Spring 2005, Prof. Erica James — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Lecture Notes
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- Section One: Biopolitics, the Fetish, and the Colonial Imaginary Download
- Medicine, Religion, and Politics in Africa and the African Diaspora Download
- Section One: Biopolitics, the Fetish, and the Colonial Imaginary Download
- Section Two: Ecstasis and the Shock of Culture Contact Download
- Section Two: Ecstasis and the Shock of Culture Contact Download
- Section Three: Historical Ideologies of Sexuality, Race, and Madness Download
- Section Three: Historical Ideologies of Sexuality, Race, and Madness Download
- Section Four: Colonial Medicine in South Africa Download
- Section Four: Colonial Medicine in South Africa Download
- Section Five: Race, Gender, Colonial Medicine, and the Construction of Disease Download
- Section Five: Race, Gender, Colonial Medicine, and the Construction of Disease Download
- Section Five: Race, Gender, Colonial Medicine, and the Construction of Disease Download
- Section Six: Medical Pluralism in the Former Zaire Download
- Section Six: Medical Pluralism in the Former Zaire Download
- Section Six: Medical Pluralism in the Former Zaire Download
- Section Seven: Culture, Morality, and the Senses in Ghana Download
- Section Seven: Culture, Morality, and the Senses in Ghana Download
- Section Seven: Culture, Morality, and the Senses in Ghana Download
- Section Eight: Sensory Ethnography in Niger Download
- Section Nine: Religion, Medicine, and the Medical Pluralism in Haiti Download
- Section Nine: Religion, Medicine, and the Medical Pluralism in Haiti Download
- Section Ten: Contemporary Psychiatry: Race, Gender, and the Mind Download
- Section Eleven: Fictions of Race, Gender, and Illness Download
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Course outline
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Erica James, 21A.460J Medicine, Religion and Politics in Africa and the African Diaspora, Spring 2005.
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