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ANTH 499: Medical Anthropology (Rev. 4, 5 & 6) Report a Broken Link

Unit 1

Baer, Hans A., Merrill Singer, and Ida Susser. “Medical Anthropology: Central Concepts and Development.” In Medical Anthropology and the World System, 2nd ed., 3–29. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. 
Brown, Peter J., Ronald L. Barrett, and Mark B. Padilla. "Medical Anthropology: An Introduction to the Fields." In Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology, edited by Peter J. Brown, 10–19. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1998.

Unit 2

Baer, Hans A., Merrill Singer, and Ida Susser. “Theoretical Perspectives in Medical Anthropology.” In Medical Anthropology and the World System, 2nd ed., 31–54. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. 
McElroy, Ann, and Patricia K. Townsend. “Chapter One: The Ecology of Health and Disease.” In Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective, 1–22. Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
Good, Byron J. "The Narrative Representation of Illness." In Medicine, Rationality, and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective, 135–165; 203–206. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. “The Madness of Hunger: Sickness, Delirium, and Human Needs.” Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry 12, no. 4 (1988): 429–458.

Unit 3

Gordon, Deborah R. “Tenacious Assumptions in Western Medicine." In Biomedicine Examined, edited by M. Lock and D. Gordon, 19–56. Dordrecht, Toe Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988.
Baer, Hans A., Merrill Singer, and Ida Susser. “Biomedical Hegemony in the Context of Medical Pluralism.” In Medical Anthropology and the World System, 2nd ed., 329–352. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. 

Unit 4

No online readings

Unit 5

No online readings

Unit 6

Helman, Cecil G. "Doctor-Patient Interactions." Culture, Health and Illness, 4th ed., 79–107; 287–290. London: Hodder Arnold, Hodder Education, 2000.
Segal, Daniel A. "A Patient So Dead: American Medical Students and Their Cadavers." Anthropological Quarterly 61, no. 1 (1988): 17–25. 
Malone, Ruth E. “Distal Nursing.” Social Science and Medicine 56 (2003): 2317–2326.

Unit 7

Storl, Wolf-Dieter. “Introduction: Is Witchcraft Medicine Good Medicine?” and “The Wild Earth and Its Children.” In Witchcraft Medicine: Healing Arts, Shamanic Practices, and Forbidden Plants, edited by Claudia Muller-Ebeling, Christian Ratsch, and Wolf-Dieter Storl, translated by Annabel Lee, vi–vii; 1–28. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions International, 2003.
Levi-Strauss, Claude. “The Sorcerer and His Magic.” In Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology, edited by Peter J. Brown, 129–137. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1998.
Low, Setha M. “The Medicalization of Healing Cults in Latin America.” American Ethnologist 15, no. 1 (1988): 136–154. 

Unit 8

Kleinman, Arthur. “Do Psychiatric Disorders Differ in Different Cultures?” In Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology, edited by Peter J. Brown, 185–196. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1998. 
Warin, Megan. “Miasmatic Calories and Saturating Fats: Fear of Contamination in Anorexia.” Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry 27, no. 1 (2003): 77–93. 
Breslau, Joshua. “Introduction: Cultures of Trauma: Anthropological Views of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in International Health.” Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry 28, no. 2 (2004): 113–26.
Rubel, Arthur J., and Carmella C. Moore. “The Contribution of Medical Anthropology to a Comparative Study of Culture: Susto and Tuberculosis.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 15, no. 4 (2001): 440–454.