Introduction - Monday
Holmes, S. 2013: Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States. Berkeley: University of California Press:
* Introduction: “Worth risking your life?”
* Chapter 2: “We are fieldworkers: Embodied anthropology of migration”.(44 pages in total).
Singer and Baer: Introducing medical anthropology: Ch 1: Why have medical anthropology? & Ch 2: What medical anthropologist do. (62 pages in total).
Perceptions of the body, illness and disease – Monday
To be announced!
Medical pluralism - Tuesday
* Hsu, Elisabeth 2008: Medical pluralism. International Encyclopedia of Public Health, pp 316-321
* Waldram, J. B. (2000). The efficacy of traditional medicine: Current theoretical and methodological issues. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 14(4), 603-625.
Gerke, B. 2014: The art of Tibetan medical practice. In: Hofer (ed): Bodies in Balance: The art of Tibetan medicine. Washington University Press. Available in Fronter
Adams, V., Miller, S., Craig, S., & Varner, M. (2005). The Challenge of Cross‐Cultural Clinical Trials Research: Case Report from the Tibetan Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 19(3), 267-289.
Medicines and pharmaceuticals - Wednesday
* Hardon, A., & Sanabria, E. (2017). Fluid Drugs: Revisiting the Anthropology of pharmaceuticals. Annual Review of Anthropology, 46, 117-132.
Global health; actors, metrics and finances – Wednesday
* Biehl, J. and A. Petryna: When people come first, selected chapters.
Reproduction and technologies - Thursday
* Hollen, C. V. (2003). Invoking vali: Painful technologies of modern birth in south India. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 17(1), 49-77.
* Teman, E. (2009). Embodying surrogate motherhood: Pregnancy as a dyadic body-project. Body & Society, 15(3), 47-69.
Inhorn, Marcia C., Birenbaum-Carmeli, Daphna, Tremayne, Soraya, Gurtin, Zeynep B. (2017). Assisted Reproduction and Middle East Kinship: A Regional and Religious Comparison. Reproductive BioMedicine and Society 4:41-51.
Mental health - Thursday
* Collins, P, V. Patel, S. Joestl, 2011. “Grand challenges in global mental health.” Nature 475(27): 27-30
* Kleinman, A. 2009. “Global mental health: A failure of humanity.” Lancet 374: 603-4.
* Kleinman, A.2012. “Culture, bereavement, and psychiatry.”Lancet 379: 608-9.
* Summerfield, D. 2008. “How scientifically valid is the knowledge base of global mental health? BMJ 336: 992-4
Prince, M., Patel, V., Saxena, S., Maj, M., Maselko, J., Phillips, M. R., & Rahman, A., 2007. No health without mental health. The lancet, 370 (9590), 859-877.
Medical humanitarianism - Friday
* Fassin, D. (2011). Introduction: Humanitarian Government. In: Humanitarian reason: a moral history of the present. pp. 4-20. University of California Press
Redfield, P. (2012). The unbearable lightness of ex‐pats: double binds of humanitarian mobility. Cultural Anthropology, 27(2), 358-382.
Redfield, P. (2012). Bioexpectations: Life technologies as humanitarian goods. Public Culture, 24(1 66), 157-184.