News Article
October 27, 2009
New Global Health Course Focuses on Cross-Cultural Medicine
Duke Global Health Institute Faculty Member David Boyd will introduce a new undergraduate course next semester that explores the role of indigenous medicine in global health.
The topic, which is new to Duke’s curriculum, will focus on basic medical paradigms and practices, access and utilization in different regions, cross-cultural health delivery, and the complexities of medical pluralism. The elective is entitled “Indigenous Medicine and Global Health” - or GLHLTH 164/ CULANTH 164/ GLHLTH 364. (See a full listing of global health courses available next semester, including several other new offerings.)
Watch this short video to learn more about medical pluralism and cross-cultural medicine.
David Boyd joined Duke and DGHI this fall from Vanderbilt University, where he was associate professor and associate director at Vanderbilt’s Center for Medicine, Health and Society. Boyd also served as executive director of the Center for Health and Healing at St. Vincent Medical Center in Los Angeles. Trained in traditional Chinese medicine at the Pacific Institute of Oriental Medicine in New York, Boyd holds a PhD in medieval studies from Yale University and has completed postgraduate clinical training in China.