| W1: „We have never been modern?” –An Initiation to Critical Approaches to Evidence Base in Medicine –  How to respond? – / – Discussion of the Semester: Requirements and Timescale. W2: Alternatives 1: Narratives and Explanatory Models – Confusions and the Lay Perspective W3: Alternatives 2: Complementary Medicine – Competition at our Doorstep W4: Alternatives 3: Healing and Folk Medicine- Wisdom or Beliefs? W5: Alternatives 4: Biomedicine for Anthropology, or the Twist of Perspectives W6: Challenges 1: Migrants, Refugees and Minorities W7: Challenges 2: Reproduction, Sex, Age, Death and other Trends in “Western” Medicalization W8: Challenges 3: Nutrition and Taboos- Biopower and Social Body W9: Challenges 4. Placebo, Pharmaceuticals and the Rule of Pharmaceutical Industry W10: Challenges 5: Public Medicine, Private Medicine and the Reproduction of Inequities W11: Favourite Themes 1: Alcohol, Drug and AIDS at Crossroads of Culture and Law W12: Favourite Themes 2: Shrinks and Madness – CBS and the Mirage of the Normal W13: Fieldworks: Discussion 1. W14: Fieldworks: Discussion 2.,Recapitulation, Feedback and Evaluation | 
Requirements of the Course:
– Active participation and interactive presence at the classes
– A classroom presentation on one of the main topics
– A mini fieldwork submitted written up by a set day and presented at a class