FACULTY OF HUMANITIES SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY COURSE UNIT OUTLINE 2018/19 SOAN 30051/60051: An Anthropology of Science, Magic and Expertise Semester 1, Alan Turing Building, G.107 Credits 20 (UG) 15 (PG) Course Convener: Professor Penelope Harvey Lecturers: Penny Harvey and Vlad Schuler Room: (Penny Harvey) 2.058 Arthur Lewis Building. Telephone: 275-8985 Email: [email protected] [email protected] Office Hours: (Penny Harvey) Mondays 3-4pm (Vlad Schuler) TBC Administrators: UG Kellie Jordan, UG Office G.001 Arthur Lewis Building (0161) 275 4000 [email protected] PG Vickie Roche, 2.003, Arthur Lewis building (0161) 275 3999 [email protected] Lectures: Monday 9.00 - 11.00 am Alan Turing Building, G.107 Tutorials: Allocate yourself to a tutorial group using the Student System Assessment: Short reports (500 words) x 3 = 10% 1000 word Book review = 20% 3000 word Assessed essay = 70% PGT (MA students) 4000 word Assessed essay = 100% Due Dates: Short report 1 - Friday 19th October 2pm Short report 2 - Friday 16th November 2pm Short report 3 - Friday 7th December 2pm 1 Book review - Friday 9th November 2pm Final essay date – Monday 14th January 2pm PGT (MA students) – Monday 14th January 2pm Please read the following information sheet in the Assessment Section on Blackboard, in connection with Essays and Examinations: INSTRUCTIONS FOR SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY UNDERGRADUATE ESSAYS AND COURSEWORK Reading week: 29th October – 2nd November 2018 Communication: Students must read their University e-mails regularly, as important information will be communicated in this way. Please read this course outline through very carefully as it provides essential information needed by all students attending this course. 2 FACULTY OF HUMANITIES SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY COURSE UNIT OUTLINE 2018/19 SOAN 30061-60021: Medical Anthropology Second Semester Credits 20 (Undergraduate) and 15 (Postgraduate) Course Convener: Dr Anthony Simpson Room: 2.050 Arthur Lewis Building Telephone: 5-4896 Email: [email protected] Office Hours: Mondays 3 – 4, Fridays 12 – 1, and by appointment Administrator: Kellie Jordan (Undergraduate) (0161) 275 4000 [email protected] Vickie Roche, PG Office, 2nd Floor Landing, Arthur Lewis (Postgraduate) (0161) 275 3999 [email protected] Lectures: Friday 2 – 4 p.m.(plus a separate weekly seminar) UNDERGRADUATE POSTGRADUATE Mode of Assessment 100% Final Examination 4000 word Final Essay (100%) Deadlines Timetable published in Final Essay – 9th May 2019 All submissions by 2.00 pm (UK time) Please read the following information sheet in the Assessment Section on Blackboard, in connection with Coursework and Examinations: UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS Communication: Students must read their University e-mails regularly, as important information will be communicated in this way. Please read this course outline through very carefully as it provides essential information needed by all students attending this course. Aims This course provides a critical overview of contemporary theoretical issues in medical anthropology and examines the, at times, awkward relationship between anthropology and medicine. Drawing extensively upon recent ethnographies from different parts of the world in order to contextualize theoretical approaches, the course examines key debates and relates these debates to wider issues of theory and method in social anthropology. Teaching and Learning Methods The weekly sessions consist of a lecture plus group work to analyze some key texts (indicated in this outline by *) that are available in e-journals or contained in the course readings available on Blackboard. There will also be opportunities for clarification of the material presented in the lectures. Questions regarding the key texts will be available on Blackboard. Readings You are encouraged to read as much as possible. The more you read, the more you will get out of the course and, I hope, the more you will enjoy it! You should aim at least to have read the key readings prior to the relevant lecture. In view of student numbers, some key texts have been put in high demand in the main university library. In the list that follows you will find a considerable number of recent articles that can be readily accessed in e-journals, just a few of the plethora of journal articles in the field of medical anthropology. I strongly encourage you to do independent research on topics of particular interest. Why not browse through recent issues of journals such as Anthropology and Medicine, Medical Anthropology, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Social Science and Medicine, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, Somatosphere? Assessment As you will see above, the assessment for undergraduates is one final three-hour exam (three questions to be answered). The assessment for postgraduates is one 4000 word essay from a topic list that covers the material in the course. All undergraduate students will have the opportunity to submit a maximum of two practice essays (no longer than 1000 words each) during the semester and will receive feedback on these essays. All postgraduate students will have the opportunity to receive feedback on their final essay plan. General recommended texts: Manderson, L, E. Cartwright and A. Hardon (eds) (2016): The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology, London: Routledge. Lock, M. and V-K. Nguyen (2010): The Anthropology of Biomedicine, Chichester: Wiley- Blackwell. Good, B. (1994): Medicine, Rationality and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Nguyen, V-K and Peschard, K. (2004): ‘Anthropology, inequality and disease: a review’, Annual Review of Anthropology 2004. pp. 447-474. Kaufmann, S. and L. Morgan (2005): ‘The Anthropology of the Beginnings and Endings of Life’, Annual Review of Anthropology 2005. pp. 318-341. Helman, C. G. ([2000](2007): Culture, Health and Illness, Oxford: Butterworth-Heineman. Helman, C.G. (2008): Medical Anthropology, Aldershot: Ashgate. Pool, R. and W. Geissler (2005): Medical Anthropology:Understanding Public Health, Maidenhead: Open University Press. Ong, A. and S.J. Collier (eds) (2005): Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems. Oxford: Blackwell. Scheper-Hughes, N. and M. Lock (1987): ‘The Mindful Body: A Prolegomenon to Future Work in Medical Anthropology’, Medical Anthropology Quarterly 1 (1) 6-41. Farmer, P. (1999): Infections and Inequalities: the modern plagues, Berkeley: University of California Press. Farmer, P. (2003): Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor, Berkeley: University of California Press. Janes, C. R. and K.K. Corbett (2009): ‘Anthropology and Global Health’, Annual Review of Anthropology 38: 167-83. Pfeiffer, J. R. Chapman (2010): ‘Anthropological Perspectives on Structural Adjustment and Public Health’, Annual Review of Anthropology 39: 149-65. Ferzacca, S. (2012): ‘Diabetes and Culture’, Annual Review of Anthropology 41: 411-26. Hahn, R. A. (1995): Sickness and Healing: an anthropological perspective, New Haven CT: Yale University Press. Reynolds-Whyte, S. (1997): Questioning Misfortune: The pragmatics of uncertainty in eastern Uganda, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Whitehead, L. and L. Manderson (eds) (2000) Global health policy, local realities: the fallacy of a level playing field, Boulder: Lynne Reinner. Lindenbaum, S. and M. Lock (eds) (1993): Knowledge, power and practice: the anthropology of medicine and everyday life, Berkeley: University of California Press. Inhorn, M. C. and D. Birenbaum-Carmeli (2008): ‘Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Culture Change’, Annual Review of Anthropology 37: 177-96. Wilce, J. M. (2009): ‘Medical Discourse’, Annual Review of Anthropology 38: 199-215. Brotherton, P. S. and V-K Nguyen (2013): ‘Revisiting Local Biology in the Era of Global Health’, Medical Anthropology, 32 (4): 287-290. Kleinman, A. et al (1997) (eds), Social Suffering, Berkeley: University of California Press. Kleinman, A. (1980): Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture, Berkeley: University of California Press. Adams, V. and S. L. Pigg (2005): Sex in Development: Science, Sexuality, and Morality in Global Perspective, Durham and London: Duke University Press. Foucault, M. (1990): The Birth of the Clinic, London: Routledge. Foucault, M. (1990) The History of Sexuality Volume One, An Introduction, Harmondsworth: Penguin. Bourdieu, P. (1977): Outline of a Theory of Practice, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Mol, Annemarie (2002): The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice, Durham NC: Duke University Press. Vaughan, M. (1991): Curing Their Ills: Colonial Power and African Illness, Oxford: Polity Press. Taylor, C. (1989): Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Carrithers, M. et al (eds) (1985): The Category of the Person, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Schweder, R. A. and R. A. Levine (eds) (1984): Cultural theory: essays on mind, body, self and emotion, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Rose, N. (2001): ‘The Politics of Life Itself’, Theory, Culture and Society 28 (6): 1-30. Link, B. G. and J. C. Phelan (2001): ‘Conceptualising Stigma’, Annual Review of Sociology 27: 363-385. Goffman, E. (1963): Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. Parker, R. and P. Aggleton (2003): ‘HIV and AIDS-related stigma and discrimination: