Week 4. The Health Behavior, and Therapy Management “Sick Role,” Tuesday Feb 5 Nichter, Mark (2002). The social relations of therapy management. New Horizons in In Medical Anthropology. Nichter and Lock, eds. Pp. 81-110. New York: Routledge Press. Thursday Feb 7 Price, Laurie (2003). Illness Management, Social Alliance, and Cultural Identity in Quito, Ecuador. Medical Pluralism in the Andes. Koss-Chioino Joan, Thomas Leatherman, and In Christine Greenway, eds. Pp. 209 233. New York: Routledge – Press, Nancy, S. Reynolds, L. Pinsky, V. Murthy, M. Leo, and like W. Burke (2005). “That’s Chopping Off a it and Illness in Finger Because You’re Afraid Might Get Broken:” Disease, of Prophylactic Mastectomy. Social Science and Medicine 61 (5): Women’s Views Due February 7: Weekly reading commentary #4 Week 5. CASE STUDY A MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGIST IN DOMINICA – Tuesday, February 12 Marsha B. Quinlan (2004). From the Bush: The Front Line of Health Care in a Caribbean Village. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning. CHAPTER 1 AND 2 Thursday, February 14 Marsha B. Quinlan (2004). From the Bush: The Front Line of Health Care in a Caribbean Village. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning. CHAPTERS 3-5 Due February 14: Weekly reading commentary #5 Week 6. The Culture of “Biomedicine” Tuesday, February 19 Kleinman, Arthur (1980). Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 71-118. Read pp. 104-118 carefully. Thursday, February 21 Davenport, Beverly A. (2000). Witnessing and the Medical Gaze: How Medical Students Learn to See at a Free Clinic for the Homeless. Medical Anthropology Quarterly
Week 4. The “Sick Role,” Health Behavior, and Therapy Management Tuesday Feb 5 Nichter, Mark (2002). The social relations of therapy management. In New Horizons in Medical Anthropology. Nichter and Lock, eds. Pp. 81-110. New York: Routledge Press. Thursday Feb 7 Price, Laurie (2003). Illness Management, Social Alliance, and Cultural Identity in Quito, Ecuador. In Medical Pluralism in the Andes. Koss-Chioino Joan, Thomas Leatherman, and Christine Greenway, eds. Pp. 209 – 233. New York: Routledge Press, Nancy, S. Reynolds, L. Pinsky, V. Murthy, M. Leo, and W. Burke (2005). “That’s like Chopping Off a Finger Because You’re Afraid it Might Get Broken:” Disease, and Illness in Women’s Views of Prophylactic Mastectomy. Social Science and Medicine 61 (5): Due February 7: Weekly reading commentary #4 Week 5. CASE STUDY – A MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGIST IN DOMINICA Tuesday, February 12 Marsha B. Quinlan (2004). From the Bush: The Front Line of Health Care in a Caribbean Village. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning. CHAPTER 1 AND 2 Thursday, February 14 Marsha B. Quinlan (2004). From the Bush: The Front Line of Health Care in a Caribbean Village. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning. CHAPTERS 3-5 Due February 14: Weekly reading commentary #5 Week 6. The Culture of “Biomedicine” Tuesday, February 19 Kleinman, Arthur (1980). Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 71-118. Read pp. 104-118 carefully. Thursday, February 21 Davenport, Beverly A. (2000). Witnessing and the Medical Gaze: How Medical Students Learn to See at a Free Clinic for the Homeless. Medical Anthropology Quarterly
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