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  • 3 pages Notes on Farmer 2003
    • Notes on Farmer 2003
    • UPenn
    • Intro to Medical Anthropology
    • ANTH 238 - Spring 2014
    • Notes on Farmer, On suffering and structural violence: Social and economic rights in the global era. In Pathologies of Power, chapter 1 (Farmer 2003) Main Ideas: - Everyones perception of pain is different; How to define suffering, violence and misery - E
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  • 5 pages Structural Violence Study Guide
    • Structural Violence Study Guide
    • UPenn
    • Intro to Medical Anthropology
    • ANTH 238 - Spring 2014
    • Structuralviolence JohanGaltung GaltungsTypologyofViolence Violencecanpersonalorstructural Violencecanbeanintendedorunintendedconsequence ManifestorLatent PhysicalorPsychological Withorwithoutobjects EXAMPLE:Governmentscaninflictviolence Examplesof
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    Structural Violence Study Guide

  • 12 pages Local biologies
    • Local biologies
    • UPenn
    • Intro to Medical Anthropology
    • ANTH 238 - Summer 2015
    • Local biologies Local biologies Body is linked to place and the local physical and social conditions in which one lives Local biologies Is there a universal body? Ideal type? Normal type? Gender Age Race Local biologies NORMALCY Leading causes of death di
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  • 30 pages 5. Learning to think, act and feel like a doctor
    • 5. Learning to think, act and feel like a doctor
    • UPenn
    • Intro to Medical Anthropology
    • ANTH 238 - Summer 2015
    • Learning to think, act and feel like a doctor Sources Christine Cho, Eva M. Delgado, Frances K. Barg, Jill C. Posner, Resident perspectives on professionalism lack common consensus. Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2013 Alexis R. Ogdie, James B. Reilly, Wyki
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    5. Learning to think, act and feel like a doctor

  • 18 pages 1. Biomedicine as a cultural system
    • 1. Biomedicine as a cultural system
    • UPenn
    • Intro to Medical Anthropology
    • ANTH 238 - Summer 2015
    • Biomedicine as a cultural system Culture in/of biomedicine Medical system Beliefs and behaviors Reflect cultural ideologies Disease theory system Cultural system Beliefs Traditions Explanatory models Health care system Technological system what d
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    1. Biomedicine as a cultural system

  • 26 pages 3. Empathy
    • 3. Empathy
    • UPenn
    • Intro to Medical Anthropology
    • ANTH 238 - Summer 2015
    • Medical student reflections on community-based observations of health: Empathy for marginalized populations and specialty choice Heather Klusaritz, PhD, MSW, Fran K. Barg, PhD, Rebecca Henderson, BA, Peter F. Cronholm, MD, MSCE, Kent D.W. Bream, MD, Mario
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    3. Empathy

  • 34 pages dahlberg ppt final
    • dahlberg ppt final
    • UPenn
    • Intro to Medical Anthropology
    • ANTH 238 - Summer 2015
    • The Impact of Risk Research on Understandings of Place Britt Dahlberg PhD Candidate, Anthropology Department University of Pennsylvania [email protected] 1 2 3 KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION visual evidence - how are diseases, risks identified? what comes to co
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    dahlberg ppt final

  • 20 pages 4. Medicalization
    • 4. Medicalization
    • UPenn
    • Intro to Medical Anthropology
    • ANTH 238 - Summer 2015
    • Medicalization and Risk Perception http:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq28qCklEHc A. Kleinman in Writing at the Margin: Discourse Between Anthropology and Medicine What difference does it make for theory, for research, for policy, and for societal ethics to ch
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    4. Medicalization

  • 25 pages 2. Becoming a patient, becoming a healer
    • 2. Becoming a patient, becoming a healer
    • UPenn
    • Intro to Medical Anthropology
    • ANTH 238 - Summer 2015
    • Becoming a healer Becoming a patient Co-construction Experience How to be a patient Sociological view Talcott Parsons sick role Patients rights You are exempt from normal role responsibilities You are eligible for care until you are well Patients res
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    2. Becoming a patient, becoming a healer

  • 23 pages 6. Illness experience 2014C
    • 6. Illness experience 2014C
    • UPenn
    • Intro to Medical Anthropology
    • ANTH 238 - Summer 2015
    • ILLNESS EXPERIENCE Renee C. Fox Lectureship Anne Fadiman, When the Spirit Catches You, You Fall Down Tuesday, October 7, 10-11 a.m. Amado Recital Hall in the Irvine Auditorium Blood Breast milk Body as machine The Sacred Heart Heart lung machine Illnes
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    6. Illness experience 2014C

  • 23 pages Critical Medical Anthropolog2014cy
    • Critical Medical Anthropolog2014cy
    • UPenn
    • Intro to Medical Anthropology
    • ANTH 238 - Summer 2015
    • C R I C A L M ED I A L TI C A N TH R O P O LO G Y Cr tcalm edi ant opol ii cal hr ogy An approach is critical if : Confronts limits and assumptions of science Examines medical knowledge and practice as a social phenomenon Looks at historical dimensions
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    Critical Medical Anthropolog2014cy

  • 11 pages Structural violence
    • Structural violence
    • UPenn
    • Intro to Medical Anthropology
    • ANTH 238 - Summer 2015
    • STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE Foci of the different approaches Biological Approach Ecological Approach Ethnomedical Approach Experiential Pathogens Subsistence systems Degenerative conditions Diet Genetics Environment and social factors Political and social environ
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    Structural violence

  • 36 pages Sex and Gender
    • Sex and Gender
    • UPenn
    • Intro to Medical Anthropology
    • ANTH 238 - Summer 2015
    • Sex and Gender Chaz Bono http:/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-BHPl0-rsw Objectives Understand the differences among gender identity, gender expression, biological sex and sexual orientation Understand the construction of gender and the shifting nature of g
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    Sex and Gender

  • 44 pages 5. Mao_acupuncture lecture_barg_undergraduate_2014_0924
    • 5. Mao_acupuncture lecture_barg_undergraduate_2014_0924
    • UPenn
    • Intro to Medical Anthropology
    • ANTH 238 - Summer 2015
    • The Art and Science of Acupuncture Jun J Mao, MD, MSCE Associate Professor Family Medicine, Community Health & Epidemiology Director of Integrative Medicine Perelman School of Medicine What is Acupuncture? Traditional Chinese Medicine Acupuncture Herbs Tu
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    5. Mao_acupuncture lecture_barg_undergraduate_2014_0924

  • 13 pages Medical anthropology and global health
    • Medical anthropology and global health
    • UPenn
    • Intro to Medical Anthropology
    • ANTH 238 - Summer 2015
    • Medical anthropology and global health Know three or four of these very well Biomedical technology and its relationship to the ways that people experience their bodies and see them themselves during health and illness. Contrast medical anthropology rese
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    Medical anthropology and global health

  • 54 pages biotechnical embrace
    • biotechnical embrace
    • UPenn
    • Intro to Medical Anthropology
    • ANTH 238 - Summer 2015
    • The biotechnical embrace The medical imaginary (Good) What we imagine medicine to be Lived experience Expectations Pop culture What is our medical imaginary Medicine and technology are good Medicine and technology are benign Medicine and technology
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    biotechnical embrace

  • 37 pages Narrative and identity
    • Narrative and identity
    • UPenn
    • Intro to Medical Anthropology
    • ANTH 238 - Summer 2015
    • Narrative in Medical Anthropology Narrative 1. Stories that people tell about illness that reflect their cultural context 2. A research method that examines the structure of talk in addition to the content of what people say Features of narratives (Mattin
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    Narrative and identity

  • 30 pages AWL_Med_Anthro_April 2014-2
    • AWL_Med_Anthro_April 2014-2
    • UPenn
    • Intro to Medical Anthropology
    • ANTH 238 - Summer 2015
    • ModernFamily: Hereditarycancersyndromesandtheslipperyslopeof preimplantationgeneticdiagnosis AllisonWernerLin,PhD,LCSW SchoolofSocialPolicyandPractice UniversityofPennsylvania MedicalAnthropology April23,2014 Acknowledgements RESEARCHTEAM: MayaDoyle,PhD K
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    AWL_Med_Anthro_April 2014-2

  • 12 pages kinship infertility and art
    • kinship infertility and art
    • UPenn
    • Intro to Medical Anthropology
    • ANTH 238 - Summer 2015
    • Families Infertility, Assisted Reproductive Technologies and their implications for Kinship Assisted reproductive technologies Kinship and gender Science and technology Inhorn and Birenbaum-Carmeli By situating technologies within networks of power/kno
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    kinship infertility and art

  • 27 pages Anthropology of epidemics
    • Anthropology of epidemics
    • UPenn
    • Intro to Medical Anthropology
    • ANTH 238 - Summer 2015
    • The anthropology of epidemics Rudolph Virchow 1821-1902 Theory of epidemics From: Lindenbaum(2001), Kuru, prions, and human affairs, Ann. Rev. Anthro, 30:363-385 In their public character, dramatic intensity, and unity of time and place, epidemics are
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    Anthropology of epidemics

  • 46 pages 4. Plural medicine-2
    • 4. Plural medicine-2
    • UPenn
    • Intro to Medical Anthropology
    • ANTH 238 - Summer 2015
    • Ethnomedicine Plural medicine Plural medical systems What is a plural medical system? One in which there is more than one treatment option and more than one set of beliefs about the cause and course of disease. Biomedical and other established systems Fol
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    4. Plural medicine-2

  • 31 pages 1. Introduction to medical anthropologyfall 2014
    • 1. Introduction to medical anthropologyfall 2014
    • UPenn
    • Intro to Medical Anthropology
    • ANTH 238 - Summer 2015
    • Introduction to medical anthropology Week one interests Interests Interests Interests What is medical anthro? Medical anthropology and related disciplines Medical geography Epidemiology Medical sociology What is medical anthropology? Medical anthropo
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    1. Introduction to medical anthropologyfall 2014

  • 20 pages 3. Penn anthro suicide prevention presentation 021414
    • 3. Penn anthro suicide prevention presentation 021414
    • UPenn
    • Intro to Medical Anthropology
    • ANTH 238 - Summer 2015
    • Culture and Psychiatry: Suicide Prevention in Native American Communities Puneet Chawla Sahota, M.D., Ph.D. Resident Physician, Department of Psychiatry Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Culture and Psychiatry Common psychiatric diagnoses can pr
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    3. Penn anthro suicide prevention presentation 021414

  • 18 pages 1. Culture and medicine_ethnomedicine
    • 1. Culture and medicine_ethnomedicine
    • UPenn
    • Intro to Medical Anthropology
    • ANTH 238 - Summer 2015
    • Ethnomedicine What is ethnomedicine? Medical beliefs and knowledge within the context of specific cultures Medical system Beliefs and behaviors Reflect cultural ideologies Disease theory system Cultural system Beliefs Traditions Explanatory models
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    1. Culture and medicine_ethnomedicine

  • 1 pages ANTH 238 - Final Study Guide
    • ANTH 238 - Final Study Guide
    • UPenn
    • Intro to Medical Anthropology
    • ANTH 238 - Spring 2014
    • Final Study Guide choose 3 questions and for each question you should have 3 sources Why does it matter how we classify diseases, persons, treatments? how we classify is how we treat sources: structure? violence by Paul Farmer, the walk, the lecture video
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    ANTH 238 - Final Study Guide

  • 2 pages Notes on The Medical Imaginary
    • Notes on The Medical Imaginary
    • UPenn
    • Intro to Medical Anthropology
    • ANTH 238 - Spring 2014
    • The Medical Imaginary and The Biotechnical Embrace Biotechnical Embrace - Arose out of oncology, but making its way into all fields - Enthusiasm for biotech sparks the medical imagination -Culture of technology -Ideology of the fantastic and often unattai
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    Notes on The Medical Imaginary

  • 2 pages Notes on the Harvard Guide to Reading and Writing in Anthropology
    • Notes on the Harvard Guide to Reading and Writing in Anthropology
    • UPenn
    • Intro to Medical Anthropology
    • ANTH 238 - Spring 2014
    • Notes on the Harvard Guide to Reading and Writing in Anthropology References for anthropology assignments I. Reading A. Essays 1. Programmatic 2. Research articles 3. Theoretical Chapters and Articles 4. Book Reviews and Review Articles B. Ethnographies 1
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    Notes on the Harvard Guide to Reading and Writing in Anthropology

  • 2 pages Notes on the historical roots of Medical Anthropology
    • Notes on the historical roots of Medical Anthropology
    • UPenn
    • Intro to Medical Anthropology
    • ANTH 238 - Spring 2014
    • Historial roots of medical anthropology 1. Interest in magic and witchcraft (19th century) -WHR Rivers - Cultural relativism: peoples beliefs about medicine -EE Evans-Pritchard - witchcraft explains misfortune What counts as common sense in a culture? 2.T
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    Notes on the historical roots of Medical Anthropology

  • 2 pages Notes on Ascencio 1999
    • Notes on Ascencio 1999
    • UPenn
    • Intro to Medical Anthropology
    • ANTH 238 - Spring 2014
    • Notes on Ascencio, Machos and sluts: Gender, sexuality, and violence among a cohort of Puerto Rican adolescents (Asencio 1999). Main Ideas: - Gender-based violence among youths - Understand behavioral, social and environmental factors that contribute to s
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    Notes on Ascencio 1999

  • 2 pages Notes on Liberation Theory and Suffering
    • Notes on Liberation Theory and Suffering
    • UPenn
    • Intro to Medical Anthropology
    • ANTH 238 - Spring 2014
    • Notes on LIBERATION THEORY The Praxis of Suffering by Rebecca Chopp Suffering of the poor Question the meaning and truth of human history Use social analysis both to explain and to deplore human suffering; forces that promote suffering Structural ana
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    Notes on Liberation Theory and Suffering

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    | Would recommend.

    Not too easy. Not too difficult.

    Course Overview:

    This was a great course that explored medicine through an anthropological lens, looking at the effects of medicine in culture, rather than science.

    Course highlights:

    We also studied the pharmaceutical industry and world health organizations in depth.

    Hours per week:

    3-5 hours

    Advice for students:

    Be prepared to read a lot and be able to discuss what you read in class; much of class time is discussion based.

    • Summer 2015
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