Fall 2020 Online

ANTH 313: GLOBAL HEALTH ISSUES THIS COURSE TAKES PLACE COMPLETELY ONLINE

Instructor: Melanie A. Medeiros Email: [email protected] Online Modules: For this course, you will have module assignments due every Tuesday at 3:30pm. Zoom Class Sessions: Almost every Tuesday at 4:00pm we will meet as a class via Zoom. The link to our Zoom meeting will be shared via Canvas. You will be notified via Canvas Announcements when we do not have a Thursday Zoom meeting. Attendance and participation in Zoom class discussions is highly recommended but not required. “Office hours”: Visit the link posted to the Canvas home page to schedule a Zoom appointment with Dr. Medeiros. Her regular meeting times will be Tuesdays 2:00-3:30pm and Thursdays 11:20am- 12:50pm. Teaching Assistant: Gail Cabahug, [email protected] Teaching Assistant Office Hours: Gail will be available for Zoom appointments in place of regular office hours. Please email her directly to schedule an appointment.

COURSE DESCRIPTION This course examines the effects of globalization on the health of people around the globe and relates disparities in the spread of preventable diseases and access to basic health services to the growing inequality between rich and poor nations. The course draws from contemporary global health research to explore issues such as the spread of infectious and chronic disease, food and water insecurity, environmental health, and the effects of violence and war on global health. The theoretical perspectives used to analyze these issues draw on the work of critical medical , ecosocial epidemiology, applied anthropology, and public health. Prerequisites: ANTH 100, or ANTH 101, or ANTH 202.

Course Learning Outcomes: • Students will demonstrate specialized knowledge of health issues facing diverse people globally, through weekly discussion question response essays, online discussions, writing a book review, and writing a final paper. • Students will demonstrate critical thinking and written communication skills as they analyze and evaluate studies of health-related issues through weekly discussion question response essays, online discussions, writing a book review, and writing a final paper. • Students will demonstrate integrative inquiry, the application of concepts and methods learned in the course, and informational and digital literacy by writing a final paper.

Sociomedical Sciences Program Learning Outcomes Satisfied • Concepts and Principles. Students will demonstrate understanding of concepts and theoretical principles central to the sociomedical sciences. • Critical Thinking & Application: Students will demonstrate critical thinking, written communication skills, and be able to read, understand, and synthesize—in writing and speech—published scholarship in allied subfields of sociomedical sciences, including medical

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anthropology, medical sociology, public health, epidemiology, biology, geography, psychology, and political science. • Field Research Methods, Data Analysis & Oral Presentation: Students will be able to design and implement an independent research project, employing interdisciplinary research and data analysis methods to examine an issue or topic related to health and medicine.

Anthropology Program Learning Outcomes Satisfied • Students will demonstrate mastery over content pertaining to human cultural and biological diversity using appropriate evidence, conventions, and critical terminology. • Students will demonstrate competency using the research methods pertaining to at least one of the four fields of anthropology in the collection and analysis of anthropological data. • Students will demonstrate competency in their ability to search and evaluate scholarly anthropological research materials. • Students will demonstrate competency in the written presentation of original ideas and supporting materials evaluating anthropological evidence.

REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS & FILMS • Singer, M. and P. Erickson. 2013. Global Health: An Anthropological Perspective. ISBN: 9781577669067 • Brown, P.J. and S. Closser. 2018. Foundations of Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Reader. ISBN: 9780190647940 • Students are required to purchase or rent one of the global health ethnographies listed under the Book Review assignment below. I recommend you do so ASAP because of delays in delivery times. • There are a couple of instances in which students will have to rent (for under $5) films to stream online via Amazon Prime, You Tube, etc. Links to the streaming sites are found in the modules on Canvas. • All other assigned reading and films are available through Canvas.

ASSIGNMENTS Detailed instructions for all these assignments are available on Canvas. Please note, a general rule of thumb for college classes is that you should expect to study about 2-3 hours per week outside class for each unit of credit. Therefore, for a 3 credit online course such as this one, you should spend 10.5 hours (outside of our weekly Zoom discussion) per week completing assignments and studying. Do not wait until the last minute to complete the 10.5 hours of weekly work required for the course.

Required Reading & Films The reading and video/film assignments are mandatory. Students should be prepared to discuss these assignments in their discussion posts, in class and in their written assignments.

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Quizzes, 3% Students will complete three short quizzes to review information in the Course Introduction module, Module 1, and the Final Paper Instructions module.

Participation, 7% Your participation grade is evaluated on your participation in the required online discussion boards..

Discussion Question Response (DQR) Essays, 50% You are required to answer 11 weekly discussion questions and upload your response essays (DQRs) to the corresponding Canvas module. See the assignment instructions posted in the Course Introduction Module for DQR instructions and criteria. Except for DQR #1 which is due Thursday, September 3rd at 11:59pm, and DQR #8 which is due Thursday October 29th at 11:59pm, your DQR essays and posts are due by 3:30pm on Tuesdays. Late discussion question response posts are not accepted unless permission to submit a post late is requested by email at least 24 hours before the post is due. Your overall DQR grade will consist of two portions. The first is a basic did-you-or-did-you-not submit your essay every week, did they demonstrate that you did the reading, and did they meet the length requirement (10% of your overall DQR grade). For the second portion of your grade, I will grade your essays four times over the course of the semester (90% of your overall DQR grade). The list of which students are graded closely by me each week is predetermined at the beginning of the semester, which means if you do not submit a DQR and your essay was pre-selected to be graded closely that week, you will receive a zero for an assignment that is worth almost 13% of your final grade. So please make sure to post a DQR every week. As part of your participation grade, you are also required to read your classmates' discussion posts and write brief (~100 word) comments in reply to the questions posted by at least five of your classmates. If you notice that some classmates’ posts have a lot of comments, and others have none, please consider commenting on the posts that have fewer comments. Except for the comments on DQR #1, which are due at 11:59pm on Friday, 9/4, and for the comments on DQR #8, which are due at 11:59pm on Friday 10/30, these DQR comments are due at 3:30pm on Wednesdays.

Lastly, you are required to write replies to all of the comments your classmates write in response to your posts. Except for the comment replies on DQR #1, which are due at 11:59pm on Saturday 9/5, and for the replies on DQR #8, which are due at 11:59 on Saturday 10/31, your comment replies are due at 3:30pm on Thursdays.

Make sure to review the Netiquette guidelines posted to Canvas before completing your posts.

Book Review & Online Discussion [3:30pm on Tues. 10/13], 15% Select a global health ethnography from the list of books below. Read the ethnography and write a Book Review on it. Book review instructions are posted to the Book Review module. In addition to uploading your book review to the Canvas assignment dropbox, you should answer the questions posted to the Book Review Discussion Board for the book that you read by 3:30pm on Tuesday, 10/13. By 3:30pm on Wednesday, 10/14 you should comment on at least 5 of your classmates’ responses to the questions, and by 3:30pm on Thursday, 10/15 you should reply to their comments on your post.

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1. Larchanche, Stephanie. 2020. Cultural Anxieties: Managing Migrant Suffering in France. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 2. Kierans, Ciara. 2019. Chronic Failures: Kidneys, Regimes of Care, and the Mexican State. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 3. Block, Ellen, and Will McGrath. 2019. Infected Kin: Orphan Care and AIDS in Lesotho. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 4. Reyes-Foster, Beatriz M. 2018. Psychiatric Encounters: Madness and Modernity in Yucatan, Mexico. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 5. Hardin, Jessica. 2018. Faith and the Pursuit of Health: Cardiometabolic Disorders in Samoa. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 6. Reed, Joel Christian. 2018. Landscapes of Activism: Civil Society, HIV and AIDS Care in Northern Mozambique. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Final Paper [11:59pm on Tues. 12/8], 30% You will write a 10-12 page (not including the References section; double-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman font, with 1-inch margins) paper on the women’s health issue of your choice. The description and details of this assignment are available in the Final Paper Instructions & How to Conduct a Literature Review module. Consult the Sociomedical Sciences Library Guide to help you with your research: http://libguides.geneseo.edu/sociomedical. In preparation for your final paper, you will upload to Canvas a list of 20 articles you found during your scholarly literature search (due Tues. 11/24 at 11:59pm) and your Synthesis Matrix (due Tues. 12/1 at 11:59pm). The description and details of these and the final paper assignment are available in the Final Paper Instructions & How to Conduct a Literature Review module. The paper must be typed, double-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman font, with 1-inch margins. Upload the final paper by 11:59pm on 12/8. I understand that things come up and that sometimes makes due dates is difficult, so students may opt to submit a paper late and receive a late penalty, rather than submit a paper that they feel is incomplete. Upload your late paper to Canvas and then email Dr. Medeiros to let her know you have uploaded it. Any assignment received later that 5 minutes after the deadline will be marked late. Late assignments will be marked down a partial letter grade for each day late (A will become an A-, A- a B+, etc.). The absolute last day to submit a late paper with a penalty for this course is Tuesday, 12/15 at 11:59pm. Planning Ahead: To prevent themselves from becoming overwhelmed with work at the end of the semester, students are strongly encouraged to look ahead at the coursework for all their courses and to plan out their assignment deadlines, especially their final assignments, students have until Tuesday, 11/24 at 11:59pm to email and formally request a no-penalty extension on their papers (so that they can submit after the due date without a late penalty). The email should explain why an extension is needed and state the date and time you would like to submit your paper to me. I will evaluate your request and let you know whether I am granting you a no-penalty extension.

COURSE GRADING POLICY Quizzes: 3% Participation: 7% Discussion Question Response (DQR) Essays: 50% Book Review & Online Book Discussion: 15%

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Final Paper: 25% TOTAL: 100%

Standard Grade Curve:

A 94- Exceptional Meets all the course requirements and demonstrates exceptional 100% work comprehension and application of the material; also demonstrates 4.0 strong writing, analytical and communication skills. A 90- Excellent work Meets all the course requirements and demonstrates excellent – 93.99% comprehension and application of the material; also demonstrates strong writing, analytical and communication skills 3.7 B+ 87- Great work Meets all the course requirements and demonstrates very good 89.99% comprehension and application of the material; also demonstrates 3.3 adequate writing, analytical and communication skills. B 83- Very good Meets all the course requirements and demonstrates good 86.99% work comprehension and application of the material; also demonstrates 3.0 adequate writing, analytical and communication skills. B- 80- Good work Meets all the course requirements and demonstrates good 2.7 82.99% comprehension of the material. C+ 77- Satisfactory Meets all course requirements and demonstrates comprehension of 2.3 79.99% work the material. C 73- Fairly Meets all course requirements. 2.0 76.99% satisfactory C- 70- Demonstrates Meets some, but not all the course requirements. 72.99% minimal 1.7 competence D 65- Marginal work Meets few of the course requirements. 1.0 69.99% E 0-64.9% Inadequate Does not meet course requirements. 0 work

PLAGIARISM Plagiarism constitutes a violation of academic honesty and will be dealt with very strictly. Plagiarism is the representation of someone else’s words or ideas as one’s own, or the arrangement of someone else’s material(s) as one’s own. Such misrepresentation may be sufficient grounds for a student’s receiving a grade of E for the paper or presentation involved or may result in an E being assigned as the final grade for the course. Any one of the following constitutes evidence of plagiarism: 1. direct quotation without identifying punctuation and citation of source; 2. paraphrase of expression or thought without proper attribution; 3. unacknowledged dependence upon a source in plan, organization, or argument.

You can read the college's academic dishonesty and plagiarism policy on-line at: http://www.geneseo.edu/dean_office/dishonesty.

ACCOMMODATIONS

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SUNY Geneseo is dedicated to providing an equitable and inclusive educational experience for all students. The Office of Accessibility will coordinate reasonable accommodations for persons with documented physical, emotional, or cognitive disabilities, as well as medical conditions related to pregnancy or parenting. Students with letters of accommodation should submit a letter to each faculty member at the beginning of the semester and discuss specific arrangements. Please contact the Office of Accessibility Services for questions related to access and accommodations. Office of Accessibility Services Erwin Hall 22 (585) 245-5112 [email protected] www.geneseo.edu/accessibility-services

EMAIL POLICY I respond to emails Monday through Friday within approximately 24 hours of receiving the email. I respond to emails sent during the weekend on Mondays. Please plan accordingly. Please use proper email etiquette: address the email Dear or Hello Professor/Dr. Medeiros, and sign your name at the end of the email. Include the course number (ANTH 313) in the subject line of the email.

SOCIOMEDICAL SCIENCES PROGRAM The Sociomedical Sciences major and minor offer students the opportunity to acquire interdisciplinary knowledge on topics and issues related to health, disease, illness and medicine, as well as analytical and practical skills that will benefit them in post-graduate education and careers in medicine, public health and other health services. Sociomedical Sciences focus on the social determinants of disease and health and examine the correlation between trends in health and its social causes, including social inequality and structural inequity. Visit https://www.geneseo.edu/sociomedical_sciences for more information.

COURSE OUTLINE

Week One Tues. 9/1 Course Introduction: Global Health and Globalization There is NO Zoom Class Discussion Today Read Before • All the pages in the Course Introduction Module Class Complete • Take the Course Introduction Quiz by 6:30pm today. Assignments • Post to the “Let’s Introduce Ourselves” Discussion board by 6:30pm today. Before Class

Thurs. 9/3 Module 1: Anthropology of Global Health There is NO Zoom Class Discussion Today. Complete the Module by 11:59pm View Before • Read, Write, Cite Library Presentation Reading

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Read • Brown, Peter J. and Svea Closser. 2019. “What is Global Health?” In Foundations of Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Reader, edited by Peter J. Brown and Svea Closser, 1-12. New York: Oxford University Press. • Brown, Peter J. and Svea Closser. 2019. “Milestones in Global Health.” In Foundations of Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Reader, edited by Peter J. Brown and Svea Closser, 13-15. New York: Oxford University Press. • Singer, Merrill and Pamela I. Erickson. 2013. Global Health: An Anthropological Perspective, 1-34 and 58-61. Long Grove: Waveland Press Inc. • Janes, Craig R. and Kitty K. Corbett. 2011. “Chapter 7: Global Health”. In A Companion to , edited by Merrill Singer and Pamela I. Erickson, 135-150. West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons • Ennis-McMillan, M., and Hedges, Kristin. 2020. “Pandemic Perspectives: Responding to COVID-19.” Open Anthropology 8(1): 1-7. Watch • Anthropology Matters & COVID-19 Assignments • CMS Author-Date Formatting Quiz by 3:30pm today. • Answer DQR #1 by 11:59pm today. [After today DQR essays are due Tuesdays at 3:30pm] • Post to the DQR #1 Discussion Board by 11:59pm today [After today DQR posts are due Tuesdays at 3:30pm]

Week Two Tues. 9/8 Module 2: Theoretical Frameworks for Examining Global Health First Zoom Class Discussion is Today (Occurs Weekly on Tuesday from Now on) Read • Brown, Peter J. and Svea Closser. 2019. “Inequalities and the Social Gradient.” In Foundations of Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Reader, edited by Peter J. Brown and Svea Closser, 229-236. New York: Oxford University Press. • Wilkinson, Richard and Michael Marmot. 2019. “Social Determinants of Health: The Solid Facts.” In Foundations of Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Reader, edited by Peter J. Brown and Svea Closser, 237-244. New York: Oxford University Press. • Singer, Merrill D., Ann Herring, Judith Littleton, and Melanie Rock. 2011. “Chapter 8: in Global Health,” In A Companion to Medical Anthropology, edited by Merrill Singer and Pamela I. Erickson, 159-180. West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons. • Krieger, Nancy. 2001. “Theories for Social Epidemiology in the 21st Century: Ecosocial Theory.” International Journal of Epidemiology 30(4): 668-77. • Ellison, James. 2014. “First-Class Health: Amenity Wards, Health Insurance, and Normalizing Health Care Inequalities in Tanzania.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 28(2): 161-181. Assignment • Answer DQR #2 by 3:30pm today. • Post to the DQR #2 Discussion Board by 3:30pm today

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Tues. 9/15 Module 3: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene [WASH] Read • Singer, Merrill and Pamela I. Erickson. 2013. Global Health: An Anthropological Perspective. Long Grove: Waveland Press Inc. (pages 73-80) • Whiteford, Linda M. and Cecilia Vindrola Padros. 2011. “Chapter 10: The Medical Anthropology of Water.” In A Companion to Medical Anthropology, edited by Merrill Singer and Pamela I. Erickson, 197-218. West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons. • Brown, Peter J. and Svea Closser. 2019. “Ecological Determinants of Health and Water.” In Foundations of Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Reader, edited by Peter J. Brown and Svea Closser, 123-127. New York: Oxford University Press. • Bartram, Jamie and Sandy Cairncross. 2010. “Hygiene, Sanitation, and Water: Forgotten Foundations of Health.” In Foundations of Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Reader, edited by Peter J. Brown and Svea Closser, 128-134. New York: Oxford University Press. • Wutich, Amber and Alexandra Brewis. 2019. “Water, Worry, and Mental Health.” In Foundations of Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Reader, edited by Peter J. Brown and Svea Closser, 135-142. New York: Oxford University Press. • Barry-Jester, Anna Maria. 2019. “What Went Wrong in Flint.” In Foundations of Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Reader, edited by Peter J. Brown and Svea Closser, 143-151. New York: Oxford University Press. • Hilts, Philip J. 2005. “A Pinch, A Fist, A Cup of Water: Oral Rehydration Therapy in Bangladesh.” In Foundations of Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Reader, edited by Peter J. Brown and Svea Closser, 36-39. New York: Oxford University Press. • Lincoln, Martha L. 2014. “Tainted Commons, Public Health: The Politico-Moral Significance of Cholera in Vietnam.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 28(3): 342-361. • Louissaint, Guilberly. 2020. “’Hygiene’ is the Future: Lessons from “Post”- Cholera Haiti.” Somatosphere: Dispatches from the Pandemic, April 16. • Lasco, Gideon. 2020. “Could COVID-19 Permanently Change Hand Hygiene?” Sapiens, April 8. Watch • Water around the World. Films On Demand. 2017. Accessed August 5, 2020. https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=16099&xtid=161198. Assignment • Answer DQR #3 by 3:30pm today. • Post to the DQR #3 Discussion Board by 3:30pm today

Week 4 Tues. 9/22 Module 4: Air Pollution, Toxins, Climate Change & Natural Disasters Read • Singer, Merrill and Pamela I. Erickson. 2013. Global Health: An Anthropological Perspective, 35-51. Long Grove: Waveland Press Inc. • Brown, Peter J. and Svea Coller. 2019. “Air.” In Foundations of Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Reader, edited by Peter J. Brown and Svea Closser, 153-158. New York: Oxford University Press. • Bruce, Nigel, Rogelio Perez-Padilla, and Rachel Albalak. 2000. “Indoor Air

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Pollution in Developing Countries.” In Foundations of Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Reader, edited by Peter J. Brown and Svea Closser, 159-164. New York: Oxford University Press. • Luber, George and Stasia Widerynski. 2018. “The Health Consequences of Global Climate Change.” In Foundations of Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Reader, edited by Peter J. Brown and Svea Closser, 175-186. New York: Oxford University Press. • Wiley, Andrea S. and John S. Allen. 2017. “Environmental Toxins and Growth.” In Medical Anthropology: A Biocultural Approach, 148-150. New York: Oxford University Press. • Singer, Merrill. 2011. “Down Cancer Alley: The Lived Experience of Health and Environmental Suffering in Louisiana’s Chemical Corridor.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 25(2): 141-163. • Fjord, Lakshmi. 2010. “Making and Unmaking ‘Vulnerable Persons’: How Disaster Exposes and Sustains Structural Inequalities.” Anthropology News. 51(7): 13-15. (NOTE: page 14 is not included in this article). • Mason, Katherine. 2020. “Gasping for Air in the Time of COVID-19.” Sapiens, March 28. • Lawson, Liberty. 2020. “Corona and Climate: Bushfire Smoth Exposure, COVID- 19 and Respiratory Health.”Sydney Environment Institute Watch • Air Pollution and Your Health: What You Should Know. Films On Demand. 2018. Accessed August 5, 2020. https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=16099&xtid=196428. Listen • Banner, Joy, Sophie Kasakove, Ashley Rogers. 2020. “COVID-19 in Cancer Alley.” COVIDCalls. Assignment • Answer DQR #4 by 3:30pm today • Post to the DQR #4 Discussion Board by 3:30pm today

Week 5 Tues. 9/29 Module 5: Nutrition & Food Insecurity Read • Singer, Merrill and Pamela I. Erickson. 2013. Global Health: An Anthropological Perspective, 63-73. Long Grove: Waveland Press Inc. (pages 63-73) • Brown, Peter J. and Svea Closser. 2019. “Food.” In Foundations of Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Reader, edited by Peter J. Brown and Svea Closser, 188-194. New York: Oxford University Press. • Martorell, Reynaldo. 1999. “The Nature of Child Malnutrition and Its Long- Term Implications.” In Foundations of Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Reader, edited by Peter J. Brown and Svea Closser, 202-207. New York: Oxford University Press. • Caballero, Benjamin. 2005. “A Nutrition Paradox: Underweight and Obesity in Developing Countries.” In Foundations of Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Reader, edited by Peter J. Brown and Svea Closser, 221-224. New York: Oxford University Press. • Kalofonos, Ippolytos. 2018. “Hunger in the AIDS Economy of Central Mozambique.” In Foundations of Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Reader, edited

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by Peter J. Brown and Svea Closser, 213-220. New York: Oxford University Press. • Githinji, Valerie. 2009. “Food Insecurity in Buhaya: The Cycle of Women’s Marginalization and the Spread of Poverty, Hunger, and Disease.” Napa Bulletin, Annals of Anthropological Practice 32: 92-114. • Poleykett, Branwyn. 2020. Hunger-20: COVID-19 Logistics in West Africa. Somatosphere: Dispatches from the Pandemic, May 10. • Haysom, Gareth. 2020. “When ‘Slow Violence’ Collides with Visceral Hunger – COVID-19 and the Current and Future Food System of Cape Town, South Africa (#WitnessingCorona). Medizinethnologie. https://www.medizinethnologie.net/when-slow-violence-collides-with-visceral- hunger-south-africa-witnessing-corona/ • Bauer, Lauren. 2020. “The COVID-19 crisis has already left too many children hungry in America.”Brookings.edu. Watch • TEDTalks: Jasmine Crowe—What We're Getting Wrong In the Fight to End Hunger. Films On Demand. 2019. Accessed August 5, 2020. https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=16099&xtid=209882. Assignment • Answer DQR #5 by 3:30pm today. • Post to the DQR #5 Discussion Board by 3:30pm today

Week 6 Tues. 10/6 Module 6: Chronic Diseases Read/Listen • Wiley, Andrea S. and John S. Allen. 2017. “Nutrition and Chronic Diseases.” In Medical Anthropology: A Biocultural Approach, 99-114. New York: Oxford University Press. • Singer, Merrill and Pamela I. Erickson. 2013. Global Health: An Anthropological Perspective. Long Grove: Waveland Press Inc. (bottom of page 54-57) • Everett, Margaret and Josef N. Wieland. 2013. “Diabetes Among Oaxaca’s Transnational Population: An Emerging .” Annals of Anthropological Practice 36(2): 295-311. • Brewis, Alexandra. 2016. “Expanding Bodies in a Shrinking World: Anthropological Perspectives on the Global ‘Obesity Epidemic.’” In Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology, edited by Peter Brown, 400-407. New York: Routledge. • Whitmarsh, Ian. 2013. “The Ascetic Subject of Compliance: The Turn to Chronic Diseases in Global Health.” In When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health, edited by João Biehl and Adriana Petryna, 302-324. Princeton: Princeton University Press. • Herric, Clare. 2020. "Syndemics of COVID-19 and 'Pre-existing conditions.'" Somatosphere, March 30. Assignment • Answer DQR #6 by 3:30pm today. • Post to the DQR #6 Discussion Board by 3:30pm today

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Week 7 Tues. 10/13 Ethnography Book Review Assignment • Book Review due at 3:30pm today. Assignment • Book Discussion post due at 3:30pm today.

Week 8 Tues. 10/20 Module 7: Introduction to Infectious Diseases & Biocommunicability Read • Singer, Merrill and Pamela I. Erickson. 2013. Global Health: An Anthropological Perspective, 51-54. Long Grove: Waveland Press Inc. • Wiley, Andrea S. and John S. Allen. 2017. “Infectious Diseases: Pathogens, Hosts and Evolutionary Interplay.” In Medical Anthropology: A Biocultural Approach, 242- 265 and 274-285. New York: Oxford University Press. • Wiley, Andrea S. and John S. Allen. 2017. “Globalization, Poverty and Infectious Diseases.” In Medical Anthropology: A Biocultural Approach, 286-319. New York: Oxford University Press. • Briggs, Charles L. and Daniel C. Hallin. 2016. “Chapter 3.” In Making Health Public: How News Coverage is Remaking Media, Medicine, and Contemporary Life. NY: Routledge. • Stalcup, Meg. 2020. "The Invention of Infodemics: On the Outbreak of Zika and Rumors" Somatosphere, March 16. • Ali, Inayat. 2020. “The COVID-19 pandemic: Making Sense of Rumor and Fear.” Medical Anthropology DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2020.1745481 • Go to the New York Times website (remember that you have free access through Geneseo’s subscription). • Step 1: • Click on the thumbnail on the left upper hand corner of the screen and search for Swine Flu. • From the search results screen filter your search to the date range April 24, 2009 to June 28, 2009. • Scroll through the search results for these dates and read the headlines. Take notes on particular headlines and what do you notice about these headlines as you scroll through them. • Count the number of headlines with the words Swine Flu in them. • Read the Swine Flu media coverag posted to Canvas • Step 2: • Click on the thumbnail on the left upper hand corner of the screen and search for Coronavirus (all one word) • From the search results screen filter your search to the date range January 8, 2020 to March 11, 2020.

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• Scroll through the search results for these dates and read the headlines. Take notes on particular headlines and what do you notice about these headlines as you scroll through them. • Read the COVID-19 media coverage posted to Canvas • Step 3: Answer DQR #7 Assignment • Answer DQR #7 by 3:30pm today. • Post to the DQR #7 Discussion Board by 3:30pm today

Week 9 Tuesday October 27th is a “Rejuvenation Day” so Module 8 is Due on Thursday, 10/29 and there is no class on 10/27

Thurs. 10/29 Module 8: The HIV/AIDS Pandemic Read • Wiley, Andrea and John Allen. 2017. “HIV/AIDS.” In Medical Anthropology: A Biocultural Approach, 319-326. New York: Oxford University Press. • Kim, Jim Yong and . 2006. “AIDS in 2006: Moving Towards One World, One Hope?” In Foundations of Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Reader, edited by Peter J. Brown and Svea Closser, 50-53. New York: Oxford University Press. • Happerin, Daniel and Helen Epstein. 2019. “Why is HIV Prevalence so Severe in Southern Africa?” In Foundations of Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Reader, edited by Peter J. Brown and Svea Closser, 260-270. New York: Oxford University Press. • Stillwaggon, Eileen and Larry Sawers. 2019. “Understanding HIV/AIDS in the African Context.” In Foundations of Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Reader, edited by Peter J. Brown and Svea Closser, 271-283. New York: Oxford University Press. • Messac, Luke and Krishna Prabhu. 2013. “Redefining the Possible: The Global AIDS Response.” In Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction, edited by Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, , and Matthew Basilico, 111-132. Berkeley: University of California Press. • Whyte, Susan Reynolds, Michael E. Whyte, Lotte Meinert, and Jenipher Twebaze. 2013. “Therapeutic Clientship: Belonging in Uganda’s Projectified Landscape of AIDS Care.” In When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health, edited by João Biehl and Adriana Petryna, 140-165. Princeton: Princeton University Press. • Kalofonos, Ippolytos Andreas. 2016. “All I Eat Is ARVs” The Paradox of AIDS Treatment Interventions in Central Mozambique.” In Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology, edited by Peter Brown, 436-446. New York: Routledge. • Atuk, Tankut. 2020. “HIV: God’s punishment for sexual deviants or a holy gift against Corona?” Somatosphere: Dispatches from the Pandemic, May 12.

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• Sangaramoorthy, Thurka. 2020. “From HIV to COVID19: Anthropology, urgency, and the politics of engagement.” Somatosphere: Dispatches from the Pandemic, May 1. • Singer, Merrill. 2020. “COVID-19 and The Lessons Anthropology Learned from HIV/AIDS.” Somatosphere: Dispatches from the Pandemic, June 30. Watch • Barker, Greg and William Cran, dirs. 2006. “The Age of AIDS.” Frontline. Aired May 6, 2006, on PBS. (3.5 hours) Recommended • HIV Stigma in Lesotho Short Videos & • South Africa: A Pastor Fights HIV Film • We Were Here (2010) Assignment • Answer DQR #8 by by 11:59pm today. • Post to the DQR #8 Discussion Board by 11:59pm today

Week 10 SELECT BETWEEN ONE OF TWO MODULE OPTIONS TO COMPLETE MODULE 10: Tues. 11/3 Module 9, Option 1: Mosquito-Vector Disease

Read • Wiley, Andrea S. and John S. Allen. 2017. “Malaria.” In Medical Anthropology: A Biocultural Approach, 265-270. New York: Oxford University Press. • Cueto, Marcos. 2013. “A Return to the Magic Bullet?: Malaria and Global Health in the Twenty-first Century.” In When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health, edited by João Biehl and Adriana Petryna, 30-53. Princeton: Princeton University Press. • Smith, Lauren. 2012. The Cultural Conceptions of Dengue Fever in the Cayo District of Belize. Human Organization 71(1): 65-75. • Schwartz, David A. 2017. “The Origins and Emergence of Zika Virus, the Newest TORCH Infection: What’s Old Is New Again.” Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 141: 18-25. • Williamson, Eliza. 2016. “Whose Responsibility? Reproduction and Care in the Time of Zika.” Anthropology News, May 11. • Williamson, Eliza. 2020. “What Comes After COVID-19.” Somtasophere, May 10. Watch • World War Zika • Tracking Zika • Ted Talks: Nina Fedoroff Assignment • Answer DQR #9, Option 1 by 3:30pm today. • Post to the DQR #10, Option 1 Discussion Board by 3:30pm today

Tues. 11/3 Module 9, Option 2: The Ebola Virus Read • Brown, Hannah and Ann H. Kelly. 2014. “Material Proximities and Hotspots: Toward an Anthropology of Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 28(2): 280-303.

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• Hewlett, Barry S. and Richard P. Amola. 2005. “Cultural Contexts of Ebola in Northern Uganda. Health and Healing in a Comparative Perspective.” In Health and Healing in Comparative Perspective, edited by Elizabeth D. Whitaker, 353-361. New Jersey: Pearson, Prentice Hall. • Fassari, Amzath et al. 2015. “Managing Rumors and Misinformation in West Africa and Ebola: Limitations for Correcting Misinformation.” In Foundations of Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Reader, edited by Peter J. Brown and Svea Closser, 453-459. New York: Oxford University Press. • Strong, Adrienne E. and David A. Schwartz. 2019. “Effects of the West African Ebola Epidemic on Health Care of Pregnant Women: Stigmatization With and Without Infection.” In Pregnant in the Time of Ebola, edited by David A. Schwartz et al., 11-30. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland. • Aljazeera. 2019. “Community Mistrust Worsening DR Congo Ebola Outbreak: A Study.” Aljazeera.com • Leach, Melissa. 2020. "Echoes of Ebola: Social and Political Warnings for the COVID-19 Response in African Settings."Somatosphere, March 6. • Niehuus, Rachel, and Jason Stearns. 2020. “COVID-19: What can the United States learn from the Democratic Republic of the Congo?” Medical Anthropology Quarterly, COVID-19 Responses, April 6. Watch • Surviving Ebola • In the Shadow of Ebola: A Liberian Family’s Story • Outbreak Assignment • Answer DQR #9, Option 2 by 3:30pm today. • Post to the DQR #10, Option 2 Discussion Board by 3:30pm today

Week 11 Tues. 11/10 Module 10: COVID-19 Read • CDC Situation Summary (Note: This • The Most Recent WHO Situation Report looks like A LOT of • Manderson, Lenore, and Susan Levine. 2020. “COVID-19, Risk, Fear, and Fall- reading but out.” Medical Anthropology 39(5). https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2020.1746301 these are • Barros, Miguel de, Anaxore Casimiro, Aliu Soares Cassamá, Cadija Mané, actually all Fatumata Jau, and Rui Jorge Semedo. 2020. “State of “Emergency” for health but short blog State of “Exception” for people: Guinea-Bissau’s paradox in the battle against entries/articles Covid-19.” City & Society 32(1): 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1111/ciso.12262 rather than full length articles • Wanjiku Kihato, Caroline, and Loren B Landau. 2020. “Coercion or the social or chapters) contract? COVID 19 and spatial (in)justice in African cities.” City & Society 32(1): 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1111/ciso.12265 • Ramella, Anna Lisa and Martin Zillinger. 2020. “Future-making on Hold: Pandemic Audio Diaries from two Rift Valley Lakes in Kenya.” Medizinethnologie (#WitnessingCorona).” https://www.medizinethnologie.net/future-making-on- hold-kenya-witnessing-corona/

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• Granada, Daniel. 2020. “The management of the coronavirus pandemic in Brazil and necropolitics: An essay on an announced tragedy.” Somatosphere: Dispatches from the Pandemic. • Parreiras, Carolina, and Viviane Mattar. 2020. “Bolsonaro's politics of death, Covid-19 and racial inequality in Brazil.” Corontimes. https://www.coronatimes.net/bolsonaro-politics-death-covid-19-race-brazil/ • Amaral de Oliveira, Lucas, and Rafael de Aguiar Arantes. 2020. “Neighborhood Effects and Urban Inequalities: The Impact of Covid-19 on the Periphery of Salvador, Brazil.” City & Society 32(1): 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1111/ciso.12266 • Vilaca, Aparecida. 2020. “The Twin Threat Facing Indigenous Peoples.” Translated by Flora Thomson-DeVeaux. Anthropology News website, April 17. DOI: 10.1111/AN.1379 • Turkewitz, Julie, and Manuela Andreoni. 2020. “The Amazon, Giver of Life, Unleashes the Pandemic.” New York Times, July 25. • Lien, Yu. 2020. “Thinking about the common good: COVID-19 and governance in Taiwan.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly: COVID-19 Responses, April 22. • Troy Cai, Yifeng. 2020. “‘Extraordinary Medicine.’” Medical Anthropology Quarterly, April 13. • Yates-Doerr, Emily. 2020. “The Cruelty of War: Repairing COVID-19 Through Healing and Care.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly, COVID-19 Responses, April 8. • Moreno, Argenis Hurtado. 2020. "El Virus: A Contagion of Racism & How Networks of Care Can Stop It." Somatosphere, April 5. • Castaneda, Ernesto and Students. 2020. “Why are Black and Latin people in the US more affected by Covid-19?” Coronatimes. . https://www.coronatimes.net/why- black-latin-us-more-affected-covid-19/ • Conger, Kate. Robert Gebeloff and Richard A. Oppel Jr. 2020. “Native Americans Feel Devastated by the Virus Yet Overlooked in the Data.” New York Times, July 30. • Hua, Miao Jenny. 2020. “Empty Beds and Mounting Deaths: COVID-19 and U.S. Healthcare’s Systemic Failures.” Somatosphere: Dispatches from the Pandemic, July 14. Assignment • Answer DQR #10 by by 3:30pm today. • Post to the DQR #10 Discussion Board by 3:30pm today

Please note, November 11th is the last day you can Withdraw from this course

Week 12 SELECT BETWEEN ONE OF THREE MODULE OPTIONS TO COMPLETE MODULE 12: Tues. 11/17 Module 11, Option 1: Global Mental Health Read • Singer, Merrill and Pamela I. Erickson. 2013. Global Health: An Anthropological Perspective, 57-58. Long Grove: Waveland Press Inc.

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• Patel, Vikram and Arthur Kleinman. 2003. “Poverty and common mental disorders in developing countries.” Bulletin of the World Health Organization 81(8): 609-15. • Patel, Vikram. 2017. “Treating Depression Where There Are No Mental Health Professionals.” In Foundations of Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Reader, edited by Peter J. Brown and Svea Closser, 424-427. New York: Oxford University Press. • Nichter, Mark and Melanie A. Medeiros. 2015. “Critical Anthropology for Global Health: What Can It Contribute to Critical Health Psychology.” In Critical Health Psychology, edited by Michael Murray, 291-307. UK: Palgrave Macmillan. • Han, Clara. 2013. “Labor Instability and Community Mental Health: The Work of Pharmaceuticals in Santiago, Chile.” In When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health, edited by João Biehl and Adriana Petryna, 276-301. Princeton: Princeton University Press. • Schoch-Spana, Monica. 2020. “COVID-19’s Psychosocial Impacts.” Scientific American, March 20. • Abarca-Brown, Gabriel. 2020. “Haitian migration and dreams in Chile: Questions for global mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.” Somatosphere: Dispatches from the Pandemic, July 27. Watch • TEDTalks: Vikram Patel—Mental Health for All by Involving All. 2012. Assignment • Answer DQR #11, Option 1 by 3:30pm today. • Post to the DQR #11, Option 1 Discussion Board by 3:30pm today

Tues. 11/17 Module 11, Option 2: Global Maternal & Child Health Read • Brown, Peter J. and Svea Closser. 2019. “Sex and Reproduction.” In Foundations of Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Reader, edited by Peter J. Brown and Svea Closser, 254-259. New York: Oxford University Press. • Levine, Ruth et al. 2018. “Saving Mothers’ Lives in Sri Lanka.” In Foundations of Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Reader, edited by Peter J. Brown and Svea Closser, 289-297. New York: Oxford University Press. • Bucagu, Maurice. 2016. “Improving Maternal Health in Rwanda: The Role of Community-Based Interventions: A Systematic Review (2005-2015).” Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education 6(3): 1-6. • Wu, Katherine J. 2020. “Study of Coronavirus in Pregnant Women Finds Striking Racial Differences.” New York Times, July 10. • Caron, Christina. 2020. “Why We Still Don’t Know Enough About COVID-19 and Pregnancy.” New York Times, July 10. Watch • Sister. 2013. Assignment • Answer DQR #11, Option 2 by 3:30pm today. • Post to the DQR #11, Option 2 Discussion Board by 3:30pm today.

Tues. 11/17 Module 11, Option 3: War, Genocide, & the Refugee Crisis Watch • Labovic, Biljana. 2016. What Does it Mean to be a Refugee. TED-Ed.

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Read • Singer, Merrill and Pamela I. Erickson. 2013. Global Health: An Anthropological Perspective, 87-100. Long Grove: Waveland Press Inc. • Rylko-Bauer, Barbara and Merrill Singer. 2011. “Chapter 11: Political Violence, War and Medical Anthropology” In A Companion to Medical Anthropology, edited by Merrill Singer and Pamela I. Erickson, 219-250. West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons. • Brown, Peter J. and Svea Closser. 2019. “Violence.” In Foundations of Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Reader, edited by Peter J. Brown and Svea Closser, 300- 303. New York: Oxford University Press. • Deveries, K.M., et al. 2013. “The Global Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women.” In Foundations of Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Reader, edited by Peter J. Brown and Svea Closser, 304-307. New York: Oxford University Press. • Levy, Barry S. and Victor W. Sidel. 2007. “War and Public Health: An Overview.” In Foundations of Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Reader, edited by Peter J. Brown and Svea Closser, 308-313. New York: Oxford University Press. • Redfield, Peter. 2013. “Beyond Happy Endings.” In Foundations of Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Reader, edited by Peter J. Brown and Svea Closser, 314-323. New York: Oxford University Press. • Farmer, Paul E., Bruce Nizeye, Sara Stulac, and Salmaan Keshavjee. 2006. “Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine.” In Foundations of Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Reader, edited by Peter J. Brown and Svea Closser, 324-333. New York: Oxford University Press. • Henry, Doug. 2006. “Violence and the Body: Somatic Expressions of Trauma and Vulnerability During War.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 20(3): 379-398.[Note: this article has descriptions of individual’s traumatic experiences and may be triggering. Please let Dr. Medeiros know if you would like to be assigned an alternative article.] Watch • Willis, Haley, and Christiaan Triebert, Natalie Reneau, and David Botti. 2020. “Which Death is Going to Be Worse?’: Coronavirus Invades a Conflict Zone.” New York Times, April 13. • TEDTalks: Essam Daod – How We Can Bring Mental Health Support to Refugees. 2018. • TEDTalks: Alexander Betts –Our Refugee System is Failing. Here’s How We Fix It. 2016. Assignment • Answer DQR #11, Option 3 by 3:30pm today. • Post to the DQR #11, Option 3 Discussion Board by 3:30pm today. Recommended • Beasts of No Nation (2015) Film

Weeks 13-15 of the Semester are Focused on Your Final Papers Week 13 Tues. 11/24 Module 12: Final Paper Instructions & Conducting a Literature Review No Zoom Class Read • All the pages in the Final Paper Instructions & How to Conduct a Literature Review module

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Assignment • Take the Final Paper Instructions Quiz by 3:30pm today. • Final Paper Assignment 1: List of Scholarly Sources due at by 11:59pm • There is no DQR #12 but I encourage you to post any questions you have about the final paper to the Final Paper Questions discussion board

Week 14 Tues. 12/1 Final Paper Work No Zoom Class Assignments • Final Paper Assignment 2: Synthesis Matrix due at 11:59pm.

Week 15 Tues. 12/8 Final Paper Due at 11:59pm No Zoom Class

Week 16 Tues. 12/15 Late Papers (with a grade Penalty) Accepted until Tuesday 12/15 No Zoom Class

NOTE: This syllabus is subject to change. Reading, film and written assignments may be removed or added when the instructor believes it necessary for the course.

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