Syllabus/achievement requirements

SOSANT2550 Medical Anthropology

@ = Books avaliable at the library, at Akademika and online bookstores such as amazon.com.

Monographs

@ Biehl, Joao: Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment, 2008. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press.

@ Prince, R.J. & P.W. Geisler: The Land is Dying: Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya, 2010. London & Oxford, Berghahn. 424 pages.

Compendium available at Kopiutsalget, groundfloor Akademika

Armstrong, D.: "Public health spaces and the fabrication of identity" in Sociology, 27, 1993. Pp 393–410.

Das, V.: "What do we mean by health" in J.C. Caldwell (ed.): What we Know about the Health Transition: The Cultural, Social and Behavioral Determinants of Health, vol. 1, Health Transition Series No. 2. , 1990. Canberra: Health Transition Centre, Australian National University, pp. 27-46.

Das, V.: "The anthropology of pain" in V. Das (ed.): Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India, 1995a. Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 175-96.

Desjarlis, R.: "Struggling along: the possibilities for experience among the homeless mentally ill" in American Anthropologist, 96, 1994. Pp. 886-901.

Foucault, M: "The birth of biopolitics" in P. Rabinow (ed.): Ethics Subjectivity and Truth, vol. 1, The Essential Works of Foucault 1954–1984, 1997. New York: The New Press. pp. 73–79.

Foucault, M.: "The birth of social medicine" in J.D. Faubion (ed.): Power, vol. 3, The Essential Works of Foucault 1954–1984, 2000. New York: The New Press. pp. 134–56.

Pandolfi, M.: "Boundaries inside the body" in Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 14, 1990. Pp. 255-273.

Feierman, S.: "When Physicians Meet: Local Medical Knowledge and Global Public Goods" in Geissler, P.W and Catherine Molyneux (eds.): Evidence, Ethos and Experiment - The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa, 2011. Oxford: Berghahn, pp 171-96.

Hayden, C.: "From market to market: Bioprospecting’s idioms of inclusion" in American Ethnologist 30 (3), 2003. Pp 359-371.

Redfield, P: "The Unbearable Lightness of Expats: Double Binds of Humanitarian Mobility" in Cultural Anthropology. Uncorrected draft, September 2011.

Leach M. & J. Fairhead: "Being 'with MRC': Infant Care and the Social Meanings of Cohort Membership in Gambia's Plural Therapeutic Landscapes" in Geissler, P.W. and Catherine Molyneux (eds.): Evidence, Ethos and Experiment - The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa, 2011. Oxford: Berghahn, pp 77-98.

Petryna, A.: "Biological Citizenship: The Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Populations" in Osiris, 2nd Series, Vol. 19, Landscapes of Exposure: Knowledge and Illness in Modern Environments, 2004. Pp. 250-265.

Strathern, M.: "Can one Rely on Knowledge?" in Geissler, P.W. and Catherine Molyneux (eds.): Evidence, Ethos and Experiment - The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa, 2011. Oxford: Berghahn books, pp. 57-76.

Street, A: "Artefacts of not-Knowing: The Medical Record, Diagnosis and the Production of Uncertainty in Papua new Guinean Biomedicine" in Social Studies of Science, in press 2011. Pp. 1-20.

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