Disease and Health: Culture, Society, and Ethics

Readings

• [Fadiman]= Fadiman, Anne. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. ISBN: 9780374533403.
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• [Farmer]= Farmer, Paul. Aids & Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame . 2nd ed. University of California Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780520248397. [Preview with Google Books ] ↗
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• [Luhrmann]= Luhrmann, T. M. Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry . Knopf, 2000. ISBN: 9780679421917.
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• [Sharp]= Sharp, Lesley A. Strange Harvest: Organ Transplants, Denatured Bodies, and the Transformed Self . University of California Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780520247864. [Preview with Google Books ] ↗
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• SES #: 2 · TOPICS: Introduction to Basic Issues · READINGS: [Fadiman]. pp. 3–105.
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• SES #: 3 · TOPICS: “Irrational” Beliefs in Disease Causation and Treatment · READINGS: [Fadiman]. pp. 106–80.
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• SES #: 4 · TOPICS: “Irrational” Beliefs, Continued · READINGS: [Fadiman]. pp. 181–288.
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• Brown, Michael. “Shamanism and its Discontents.” In Health and Healing in Comparative Perspective . Edited by Elizabeth Whitaker. Pearson, 2005, pp. 95–108. ISBN: 9780131273832. [Originally in Brown, Michael Fobes. “ Shamanism and its Discontents .” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 2, no. 2 (1988): 102–20]. ↗
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• Ong, Aihwa. “ The Production of Possession: Spirits and the Multinational Corporation in Malaysia .” American Ethnologist 15, no. 1 (1987): 28–42. ↗
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• Csordas, Thomas. “Elements of Charismatic Persuasion and Healing.” In A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities . Edited by Byron Good, et al. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, pp. 91–107. ISBN: 9781405183147.
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• Miner, Horace. “ Body Ritual among the Nacirema .” American Anthropologist 58, no. 3 (1956): 503–7. ↗
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• Favret-Saada, Jeanne. “ Unbewitching as Therapy .” American Ethnologist 16, no. 1 (1989): 40–56. ↗
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• Wikan, Unni. “ Managing the Heart to Brighten Face and Soul: Emotions in Balinese Morality and Health Care .” American Ethnologist 16, no. 2 (1989): 294–312. ↗
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• Davis, Dona. “The Cultural Constructions of the Premenstrual and Menopause Syndromes.” In Gender and Health: An International Perspective . Edited by Carolyn Sargent and Caroline Brettell. Pearson, 1995, pp. 57–86. ISBN: 9780130794277.
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• Hahn, Robert A. “The Role of Society and Culture in Sickness and Healing.” In Sickness and Healing: An Anthropological Perspective . Yale University Press, 1996, pp. 76–98. ISBN: 9780300068719.
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• Lock, Margaret, and Nancy Scheper-Hughes. “The Mindful Body: A Prolegomenon to Future Work in Medical Anthropology.” In Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology . Edited by Peter Brown. McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2009, pp. 208–24. ISBN: 9780073405384.
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• Katz, Pearl. “ Ritual in the Operating Room .” Ethnology 20, no. 4 (1981): 335–50. ↗
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• Moerman, Daniel, and Wayne Jonas. “Deconstructing the Placebo Effect and Finding the Meaning Response.” In Health and Healing in Comparative Perspective . Edited by Elizabeth Whitaker. Pearson, 2006, pp. 340–7. ISBN: 9780131273832.
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• Obeyesekere, Gananath. “Depression, Buddhism and the Work of Culture in Sri Lanka.” In Culture and Depression: Studies in the Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Psychiatry of Affect and Disorder . Edited by Arthur Kleinman and Byron J. Good. University of California Press, 1986, pp. 134–52. ISBN: 9780520058835. [Preview with Google Books ] ↗
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• Jackson, Jean. “Pain and Bodies.” In A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment . Edited by Frances Mascia-Lees. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, pp. 370–87. ISBN: 9781405189491.
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• Hahn, Robert A. “Biomedicine as a Cultural System.” In Sickness and Healing: An Anthropological Perspective . Yale University Press, 1996, pp. 131–72. ISBN: 9780300068719.
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• Hahn, Robert A. “A World of Internal Medicine: Portrait of an Internist.” In Sickness and Healing: An Anthropological Perspective . Yale University Press, 1996, pp. 173–208. ISBN: 9780300068719.
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• Gordon, David Paul. “ Hospital Slang for Patients: Crocks, Gomers, Gorks, and others .” Language in Society 12, no. 2 (1983): 173-85. ↗
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• SES #: 12 · TOPICS: The Institution(s) of Medicine IV · READINGS: [Luhrmann]. pp. 119–202.
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• SES #: 13 · TOPICS: The Institution(s) of Medicine V · READINGS: [Luhrmann]. pp. 203–65.
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• Dumit, Joseph. “When Explanations Rest: ‘Good-Enough’ Brain Science and the New Socio-medical Disorders.” In Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies: Intersections of Inquiry . Edited by Margaret Lock, Allan Young, and Alberto Cambrosio. Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 209–32. ISBN: 9780521652100.
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• Rosenhan, David L. et al. “ On Being Sane in Insane Places .” Science 179 (1973): 250-8. ↗
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• Rhodes, Lorna. “Dreaming of Psychiatric Citizenship: A Case Study of Supermax Confinement.” In A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities . Edited by Byron Good, et al. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, pp. 181–98. ISBN: 9781405183147.
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• Hahn, Robert A. “Between Two Worlds: Physicians as Patients.” In Sickness and Healing: An Anthropological Perspective . Yale University Press, 1996, pp. 234–61. ISBN: 9780300068719.
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• Payer, Lynn. “Borderline Cases: Medical Practice and National Culture.” The Sciences (1990): 285–8.
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• Rajan, Kaushik Sunder. “Experimental Values: Indian Clinical Trials and Surplus Health”. In A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities . Edited by Byron Good, et al. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, pp. 377–88. ISBN: 9781405183147.
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• Petryna, Adriana. “Globalizing Human Subjects Research.” In Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices . Edited by Adriana Petryna, et al. Duke University Press Books, 2006, pp. 33–60. ISBN: 9780822337416.
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• SES #: 17 · TOPICS: Health, Disease and Healing in the Larger Social Context II · READINGS: [Farmer]. pp. 1–94.
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• SES #: 18 · TOPICS: Health, Disease and Healing in the Larger Social Context III · READINGS: [Farmer]. pp. 95–176.
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• SES #: 19 · TOPICS: Health, Disease and Healing in the Larger Social Context IV · READINGS: [Farmer]. pp. 177–264.
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• Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. “Min(d)ing the Body: On the Trail of Organ-Stealing Rumors.” In Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines . Edited by Jeremy MacClancy. The University of Chicago Press, 2002, pp. 33–63. ISBN: 9780226500133. [Preview with Google Books ] ↗
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• Sanal, Aslihan. “Robin Hood of Techno-Turkey, or Organ Trafficking in the State of Ethical Beings.” In A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities . Edited by Byron Good, et al. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, pp. 300–18. ISBN: 9781405183147.
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• Cohen, Lawrence. “Where it Hurts: Indian Material for an Ethics of Organ Transplantation.” In A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities . Edited by Byron Good, et al. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, pp. 284–99. ISBN: 9781405183147.
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• Waxler, Nancy. “Learning to be a Leper: A case study in the Social Construction of Illness.” In Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology . Edited by Peter Brown and Ron Barrett. McGraw-Hill Humanities, 2009, pp. 147–57. ISBN: 9780073405384. [Originally in Mishler, et al. Social Contexts of Health, Illness, and Patient Care . CUP Archive, 1981, pp. 169–92. ISBN: 9780521280341. [Preview with Google Books ]. ↗
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• Farquhar, Judith. “ Market Magic: Getting Rich and Getting Personal in Medicine after Mao .” American Ethnologist 23, no. 2, (1996): 239–57. ↗
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• Landecker, Hannah. “Immortality, in Vitro: A History of the HeLa Cell Line.” In A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities . Edited by Byron Good, et al. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, pp. 353–66. ISBN: 9781405183147.
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• Murphy, Robert. “The Damaged Self.” In Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology . Edited by Peter Brown and Ron Barrett. McGraw-Hill Humanities, 2009, pp. 322–32. ISBN: 9780073405384.
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• García, Angela. “The Elegiac Addict: History, Chronicity, and the Melancholic Subject.” In A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities . Edited by Byron Good, et al. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, pp. 522–39. ISBN: 9781405183147.
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• Inhorn, Marcia. “Quest for Conception: Gender, Infertility, and Egyptian Medical Traditions.” In A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities . Edited by Byron Good, et al. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, pp. 319–26. ISBN: 9781405183147.
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• Rapp, Rayna. “Constructing Amniocentesis: Maternal and Medical Discourses.” In Situated Lives: Gender and Culture in Everyday Life . Edited by Louise Lamphere, Helena Ragone, and Patricia Zavella. Routledge, 1997, pp. 128–41. ISBN: 9780415918077. [Preview with Google Books ]. ↗
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• Cussins, Charis. “Ontological Choreography: Agency for Women Patients in an Infertility Clinic.” In Differences in Medicine: Unraveling Practices, Techniques, and Bodies . Edited by Marc Berg and Annemarie Mol. Duke University Press Books, 1998, pp. 166–201. ISBN: 9780822321743. [Preview with Google Books ] ↗
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• SES #: 24 · TOPICS: New Medical Technologies · READINGS: [Sharp]. pp. 1–100.
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• SES #: 25 · TOPICS: Student Presentations · READINGS: [Sharp]. pp. 101–205.
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• SES #: 26 · TOPICS: Student Presentations (cont.) · READINGS: [Sharp]. 206–42.
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