SOSANT2550 Medical Anthropology
@=Books can be borrowed at the library, bought on the web (amazon.com) or at the book store Akademika Blindern. Kompendium has to be purchased from Kopiutsalget (groundfloor Akademika). Rembember to bring student card.
Monographs
@ Petryna, Adriana: Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl (In-Formation), 2002. Paperback, 280 pages.
@ Prince, R.J. & P.W. Geisler: The Land is Dying: Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya, 2010. London & Oxford, Berghahn. 424 pages.
Articles in kompendium
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.