Section Name Description
File Anth 331 Syllabus 3.0 REVISED
File In class Presentation Sign up List
File Paper 1 Assignment
Folder Paper 2 Assignment and Resources

Paper 2

WEEK 3 - September 18 File Singer and Baer. Why Have a Medical Anthropology
File Hahn. Three Theories of Sickness
File Good. Illness Representation in Medical Anthropology
File Gawande. The Hot Spotters
WEEK 4 - September 25 File Benedict Anthropology and the Abnormal
File Lock and Nguyen. Chapter 2 The Normal Body
File Ong. The Production of Possession
File Obeyesekere. Selection from Medusa's Hair
File RECOMMENDED: Goffman. Chapter 1 Stigma and Social Identity
File (Optional) White Leprosy and Stigma in the Context of Intl Migration
WEEK 6 - October 9 File McMullin. Cancer and the Comics
URL McMullin et al Somatosphere entry
File Kleinman. Illness Narratives-Preface and Chapter 1
URL CDC Junior Disease Detectives Operation Outbreak Graphic Novel
URL CDC Weekly US Flu Report
WEEK 8 - October 23 File Lock and Nguyen. Chapter 3 Anthropologies of Medicine
File Good. How Does Medicine Construct Its Objects?
File Kleinman. Patients and Healers pgs. 104-118
File Helman. Doctor-Patient Interactions
WEEK 9 - October 30 - Prospectus for Final Paper Due File Erickson. What is Ethnomedicine
File Anh et al. Complementary and Alternative Medical Therapy...
File Baer. Selections from Medical Pluralism
November 4 (Sunday 10:30 a.m.-12p.m.) Infectious Disease (Ebola and Avian Influenza) File Omidian et al. Ebola Disease Outbreak
URL Porter. Bird Flu
File Porter. Bird Flu Biopower
WEEK 10 - November 6 File Case Story Analysis
File Doctors Don't Know Anything
File Gawande. Whose Body is it Anyway?
WEEK 12 - November 20 File Whitmarsh. Contestations of Race
File Montoya. Bioethnic Conscription
File Fullwiley. The Molecularization of Race
File RECOMMENDED ONLY Chavez. Wasting Away in Neoliberal-ville
WEEK 13 - November 27 - Draft of Research Paper Due for Peer Exchange in Class File Foucault The Politics of Health in the 18th Century pp. 166-182
File Lock and Nguyen. Chapter 5 Grounds for Comparison
File Hacking. Biopower on the Avalanche of Printed Numbers
WEEK 14 - December 4 File Moerman. Cultural Variations in the Placebo Effect
File Raikhel. Post-Soviet Placebos
File Lakehoff. The Right Patients for the Drug