ANT 231-000: Predictive Health and Society (Spring 2010)

Semester Details: Health impacts virtually every societal element - from medicine to law; economics to faith. It is every individual's concern, and a topic of consequence in the decisions we make regardless of what professional field we pursue. This course is built upon the University's Predictive Health Initiative and its collaboration with the Georgia Institute of Technology to integrate research, scholarship, and education in an innovative effort aimed at revolutionizing health care. This course introduces students to the efforts seeking to define health and move the practice of medicine from a reactive, disease-focused system to a proactive health-focused one. Students will have the opportunity to engage in this shift in thinking through the course emphasis on the interconnections between mind, body and spirit. Students will gain a better understanding of healthy human function as well as diet, exercise, behavioral motivation and interpersonal interactions. Multidisciplinary topics include the perspectives of business, law, ethics, humanities, engineering, nursing, religion, public and global health, as well as the sciences. Faculty guest lecturers from across the university will participate and share insight from scientific research, ethics, economics and policy on how best to apply a predictive health system to individuals and populations.

There are no prerequisites for this course.

 Particulars: The course requirements include three short reports, one midterm and a final exam.

For more information: http://predictivehealth.emory.edu and https://www.phi.emory.edu/chd/