The first trimester focuses on the field of medical anthropology and its specialisations. All students take two core introductional modules in cultural anthropology and medical anthropology and the core module Studying Health and Disease.

The second trimester gives an indepth view of medical anthropological approaches. All students take the core module Ethnographies of Health and Health Care. In addition, they must choose two of several thematic modules that reflect themes in the research program of the Medical Anthropology Unit. Thematic modules may vary from year to year. The 2009-2010 course offers:

* Gender, Reproductive and Sexual Health and Fertility
* Children, Health and Well-being: a cultural perspective
* Aids in the 21st Century: A Medical Anthropological Perspective
* Culture, Psychology and Psychiatry
* Medicine and Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perespective
* Social, Cultural and Historical Dimensions of Infectious Disease

These thematic modules are open for other students as well, and are organised in the AMMA Winterschool.

The third trimester focuses on anthropological research methods, and on the design and realisation of a relevant research project. All students take a core module on research methods, during which they choose a relevant topic for anthropological inquiry and design a proposal and work plan for the realisation of this research. The second half of the third trimester and the following summer months are used for fieldwork and writing a thesis.

For the academic year 2010-2011 the fulltime tuition fee is € 14500. Part time students pay per trimester a fee of € 5000. The fee for a 5 point course is € 1475.

The Universiteit van Amsterdam does not provide scholarships. Prospective students are advised to seek financial support for the course from bilateral and multilateral donors. Click here.

Mr. Peter Mesker,
Tel: +31 (0)20 525 4779
Fax: +31 (0)20 525 2086
E-mail: amma@pscw.uva.nl
Internet: http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/amma/index.html

Medical Anthropology is a relatively young and dynamic field. It is the fastest growing
specialisation in cultural anthropology. In this new Winterschool we selected five essential and relevant themes in health and health care. Each theme is organised as an executive module.

The course Gender, Reproductive and Sexual Health and Fertility is grounded in this broader sexual and reproductive health approach, focusing on the multiple sexual and reproductive health needs of men and women in various socio-cultural and political contexts. In doing so, it pays particular attention to gender-power dynamics and their impact on reproductive and sexual health outcomes, based on the recognition that gender inequity as manifested in culture-specific norms and behaviours greatly enhances women’s vulnerability to unwanted pregnancies, sexually-transmitted infections (STIs), AIDS and sexual violence. Moreover, the course transcends biomedicine by taking into account the social, cultural, political and economic dimensions of sexual and reproductive health. This has been done in the belief that for public health efforts to be effective, a greater and more systematic understanding is needed of how the interface of gender, sexuality and reproductive health is shaped by the coexistence of tradition, modernity and post-modernity in a world deeply affected by globalisation, consumerism and other trans-national influences.

Tel: +31 (0)20 525 47 79
Fax: +31 (0)20 525 30 10
Email: amma@fmg.uva.nl
Internet: http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/amma/flyers-080958/gender.pdf

Medical Anthropology is a relatively young and dynamic field. It is the fastest growing
specialisation in cultural anthropology. In this new Winterschool we selected five essential and relevant themes in health and health care. Each theme is organised as an executive module.

Human rights law provides standards for medical care for victims of, for instance, war and torture. What is the role of culture in the application of such law in conflict and post-conflict situations around the world? How should one connect intervention and prevention to survivors’ perceptions? Caregivers and scientists are confronted with human rights issues, abroad and at home, when working in an asylum or a psycho-trauma centre, in humanitarian NGOs, or in fieldwork and research. Medical professionals need to know about the rights of their individual patients and human rights issues in the context of public health. Human rights workers and government officials, in charge of refugees and asylum seekers, need to know about the health effects of abuses.
Often, professionals connect health and human rights by emphasizing universal values, while remaining reluctant to addressing underlying social and cultural dynamics. In medical anthropology, this global and universal discourse is considered problematic. Human rights acts and treaties all too often neither act nor treat. Why is that? The anthropological argument
is that respect and righteousness presuppose an indepth knowledge of what is at stake for the victims, perpetrators, politicians, bystanders, lawyers and doctors. What do human rights and wrongs mean to these stakeholders? How do victims deal with their suffering if on their own?

Tel: +31 (0)20 525 47 79
Fax: +31 (0)20 525 30 10
Email: amma@fmg.uva.nl
Internet: http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/amma/flyers-09/mhr_new.pdf

Medical Anthropology is a relatively young and dynamic field. It is the fastest growing
specialisation in cultural anthropology. In this new Winterschool we selected five essential and relevant themes ???h?in health and health care. Each theme is organised as an executive module.

Human rights law provides standards for medical care for victims of, for instance, war and torture. What is the role of culture in the application of such law in conflict and post-conflict situations around the world? How should one connect intervention and prevention to survivors’ perceptions? Caregivers and scientists are confronted with human rights issues, abroad and at home, when working in an asylum or a psycho-trauma centre, in humanitarian NGOs, or in fieldwork and research. Medical professionals need to know about the rights of their individual patients and human rights issues in the context of public health. Human rights workers and government officials, in charge of refugees and asylum seekers, need to know about the health effects of abuses.
Often, professionals connect health and human rights by emphasizing universal values, while remaining reluctant to addressing underlying social and cultural dynamics. In medical anthropology, this global and universal discourse is considered problematic. Human rights acts and treaties all too often neither act nor treat. Why is that? The anthropological argument
is that respect and righteousness presuppose an indepth knowledge of what is at stake for the victims, perpetrators, politicians, bystanders, lawyers and ???h?doctors. What do human rights and wrongs mean to these stakeholders? How do victims deal with their suffering if on their own?

Tel: +31 (0)20 525 47 79
Fax: +31 (0)20 525 30 10
Email: amma@fmg.uva.nl
???h? Internet: http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/amma/flyers-09/mhr_new.pdf