Syllabus/achievement requirements

SOSANT2550 Medical Anthropology

@=Books avaliable at the library, at Akademika and other bookshops

Monographs

@Briggs, C. L.: Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare, 2002. . Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press. ISBN: 0520243889.

@Scarry, E: The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World, 1985. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0195049969.

Compendium bought at Kopiutsalget

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

Csordas, T. J: "Words from the holy people: a case study in cultural phenomenology" in T. J. Csordas: Emodiment and Experience: The Exitential Ground of Culture and Self, Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology, no 2, 1994. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 269-90.

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.

Desjarlis, R: Struggling along: the possibilities for experience among the homeless mentally ill, 1994. American Anthropologist 96. pp. 886-901.

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.

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: "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.

Pandolfi, M: Boundaries inside the body, 1990. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 14.

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

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