Syllabus/achievement requirements

SOSANT2550 Medical Anthropology

Monographs

Lock, M: Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death. Public Anthropology, 2001. Berkeley and London: University of California Press.

Petryna, A : Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl, 2002. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press.

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

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

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

Das, V: Voices as birth of culture, 1995b . Ethnos 60. pp 159-179.

Eisenberg, L: Disease and Illness: Distinction between Professional and Popular Ideas of Sickness, 1977. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 1. Sidene 9 - 23 (14 sider).

Farmer, P. E : An anthropology of structural violence, 2004. Current Anthropology 45. pp 305–325.

Flikke, R : Public health and the development of racial segregation in South Africa, 2003. Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies 5. pp 5–23.

Foucault, M : “Stultifera Navis”, chapter 1 in Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason , 1965 (Reprint 1988 edition) . New York: Vintage Books. pp. 3–27.

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

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

Good, B. J : "How medicine constructs its object," in Medicine, Rationality, and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective, The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures 1990. Edited by B. J. Good, 1994a. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 65-87.

Good, B. J: "The narrative representation of illness," in Medicine, Rationality, and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective, The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures 1990. Edited by B. J. Good, 1994b. . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 135–165.

Kleinman, A., and J. Kleinman : "Suffering and its professional transformation: toward an ethnography of interpersonal experience", 1991. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 15. pp 275-301.

Scheper-Hughes, N : Parts unknown. Undercover ethnography of the organs-trafficking underworld, 2004. Ethnography 5. pp 29–73.

Scheper-Hughes, N., and M. M. Lock : "The mindful body: a prolegomenon to future work in medical anthropology", 1987. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, New Series 1. pp 6-41.

Young, A: "Bodily memory and traumatic memory," in Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory. Edited by P. Antze and M. Lambek, 1996. New York and London: Routledge.

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