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Lecture Notes

SES # TOPICS LECTURE NOTES
1 Introduction to course (PDF)
2 Introduction to basic issues (PDF)
3 "Irrational" beliefs in disease causation and treatment (PDF)
4 "Irrational" beliefs (cont.) (PDF)
5 Symbolic healing and harming (PDF)
6 The cultural construction of disease (PDF)
7 Theoretical frames (PDF)
8 Meaning, medicine, and illness (PDF)
9 The institution(s) of medicine I (PDF)
10 The institution(s) of medicine II  
11 The institution(s) of medicine III (PDF)
12 The institution(s) of medicine IV  
13 The institution(s) of medicine V (PDF)
14 The institution(s) of medicine VI  
15 The institution(s) of medicine VII (PDF)
16 Health, disease and healing in the larger social context I (PDF)
17 Health, disease and healing in the larger social context II

(PDF)
18 Health, disease and healing in the larger social context III (PDF)
19 Health, disease and healing in the larger social context IV (PDF)
20 Health, disease and healing in the larger social context V (PDF)

 

Photos
21 Stigma, responsibility, and blame (PDF)
 
22 The challenge of chronic illness (PDF)
 
23 New reproductive technologies (PDF)
 
24

New reproductive technologies (cont.)

The social and political context of reproduction

  
25 The social and political context of reproduction (cont.)  
26 Reports on third paper in class  

Photos

The following photos were taken by Prof. Jackson in Cerro de Oro, Guatemala, during the summer of 1966, as part of a project to collect blood samples for a genetics study.

Two young men, standing with a Jeep in front of the clinic. A man, woman, and two young children. A middle-aged man standing between two clinic assistants. A child with open sores on his chest, being held as they are cleaned. Extensive open sores on the neck of a man. Two women, two men, and a small child, posed in front of a wall reading 'Cerro de Oro.'