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LEC # TOPICS READINGS
1 Introduction to Course
2 Introduction to Basic Issues
  • Fadiman. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, her American Doctors, and the Collision of two Cultures. 3-105.
3 "Irrational Beliefs" in Disease Causation and Treatment
  • Fadiman. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: ___. 106-180.
4 "Irrational Beliefs" continued
  • Fadiman. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: ___. 181-288.
5 Symbolic Healing I
  • Paul Farmer. "Bad Blood, Spoiled Milk: Bodily Fluids as Moral Barometers in Rural Haiti." 63-83.
  • Aihwa Ong. "The Production of Possession: Spirits and the Multinational Corporation in Malaysia." 28-42.
  • Michael Brown. "Shamanism and its Discontents." 102-120.
  • Horace Miner. "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema." 414-415.
6 The Cultural Construction of Disease
  • Claude Lévi-Strauss. "The Effectiveness of Symbols." In Structural Anthropology. 181-201.
  • Jeanne Favret-Saada. "Unbewitching as Therapy." In American Ethnologist. 40-56.
  • Unni Wikan. "Managing the Heart to Brighten Face and Soul: Emotions in Balinese Morality and Health Care." 294-312
7 Cross-Cultural Perspectives I
  • Paul Farmer. "Bad Blood, Spoiled Milk: Bodily Fluids as Moral Barometers in Rural Haiti." 1-79.
8 Cross-Cultural Perspectives II
  • Paul Farmer. "Bad Blood, Spoiled Milk: ___." 80-163.
9 Cross-Cultural Perspectives III
  • Paul Farmer. "Bad Blood, Spoiled Milk: ___." 164-264.
10 Current Theoretical Issues I
  • Hahn. "The Universe of Sickness."
  • ___. "Culture-Bound Syndromes Unbound." In Reader. 13-56.
  • Scheper-Hughes, Nancy, Nancy, and Margaret Lock. "The Mindful Body: A Prolegomenon to Future Work in Medical Anthropology." 6-41.
11 Current Theoretical Issues II
  • Hahn. "The Role of Society and Culture in Sickness and Healing." In Hahn, Sickness and Healing. 76-98.
  • Laurence J. Kirmayer. "Mind and Body as Metaphors: Hidden Values in Biomedicine." In M. Lock and D. Gordon. Biomedicine Examined. 57-93.
12 Meaning, Medicine, and Illness
  • Gananath Obeyesekere. "Depression, Buddhism and the Work of Culture in Sri Lanka." In Kleinman and Good. Culture and Depression. 134-152.
  • Samuel Osherson, and Lorna AmaraSingham. "The Machine Metaphor in Medicine." In Mishler. 218-244.
  • Emily Martin. "Toward an Anthropology of Immunology: The Body as Nation State." 410-426.
13 The Institution(s) of Medicine I
  • Hahn. "Biomedicine as a Cultural System." In Hahn. Sickness and Healing. 173-208.
14 The Institution(s) of Medicine II. Video: "Back from Madness"
  • Hahn. "A World of Internal Medicine: Portrait of an Internist." In Hahn. Sickness and Healing. 173-208.
  • T.M. Luhrmann. Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry. 25-83.
15 The Institution(s) of Medicine III
  • Luhrmann. 84-118.
  • David Paul Gordon. "Hospital slang for Patients: Crocks, Gomers, Gorks, and Others." 173-185.
16 The Institution(s) of Medicine IV Video: "Deadly Deception"
  • Luhrmann. 119-202.
17 The Institution(s) of Medicine V
  • Luhrmann. 203-238.
18 The Institution(s) of Medicine VI. Video: "The Search for Satan"
  • Luhrmann. 239-293.
19 The Institution(s) of Medicine VII
  • David L. Rosenhan. "On being sane in insane places." 250-58.
  • Pearl Katz. "Ritual in the Operating Room." 247-257.
  • Dan Blumhagen. "The Doctor's White Coat: The Image of the Physician in Modern America." 230-236.
  • Robert Hahn. "Between Two Worlds: Physicians as Patients." In Hahn. "Sickness and Healing". 234-261.
20 Health, Disease and Healing in the Larger Social Context I; video: "Simple Courage"
  • Nancy P Waxler. "Learning to be a leper: A Case Study in the Social Construction of Illness." 169-192.
  • Norma Ware. "Suffering and the Social Construction of Illness: The Delegitimation of Illness Experience in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome." 347-361.
  • Lynn Payer. "Borderline Cases: Medical Practice and National Culture." 285-288.
21 Stigmatized Conditions and the Construction of Illness: Chronic Pain
  • Kleinman. xi-xv, 56-120 (skim 1-55).
22 The Challenge of Chronic Illness
  • Kleinman. 121-208.
23 The Construction of Reproduction. Video: "The Lynchburg Story"
  • Charis Cussins. "Producing Reproduction: Techniques of Normalization and Naturalization in Infertility Clinics." 66-101
  • Rayna Rapp. "Constructing Amniocentesis: Maternal and Medical Discourses." In  Situated Lives: Gender and Culture in Everyday Life. Edited by Lamphere, Ragoné and Zavella. 128-141.
  • Begin Scheper-Hughes. 1-30. skim 31-64.
24 Reproduction
  • Janelle S. Taylor. "Image of Contradiction: Obstetrical Ultrasound in American Culture." In Reproducing Reproduction: Kinship, Power, and Tecnological Innovation. Edited by Franklin and Ragoné. 15-45
25 International Political Economy and Health
  • Scheper-Hughes. 128-215.
26 Wrap-up I: Discussion of third written assignment
  • Scheper-Hughes. 216-339.
27 Wrap-up II: Continued discussion of third written assignment
  • Kleinman. 209-267.