This is the most recent version of a graduate course in medical anthropology theory that I teach. The main caveat is that this is the second in a set of three theory courses students are required to take, so it presumes the students have already taken the first course, which covers an extensive range of contemporary medical anthropology. My hope …
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Syllabus: Culture, Mental Health and Psychiatry
Over the past couple of years I’ve been developing an advanced survey course on culture, psychiatry and mental health. I’ve now taught it twice at the University of Chicago, and while I’ll continue to make changes, I thought that it might be interesting to share the syllabus with others.
As you’ll see in the syllabus, the course is meant to …
Medical anthropology films
This list of medical anthropology films was contributed by Rebecca Prentice (Goldsmiths College, University of London). Please feel free to add suggestions.
There are a number of websites worth looking at for excellent health-related films that are available online for free (but may not be accessible in all countries):
· Neuroanthropology: …
More syllabus mania! (figuratively speaking)
We should have some more posts in our series on syllabi and reflections on teaching, but in the meantime, you might want to check out similar efforts underway at other blogs. The brilliant h-madness is also running a series of posts of syllabi and comments on the experience of teaching the course. The series focuses on courses in the history …
Teaching Critique of Humanitarianism: A Syllabus for Comparative Study
This post was contributed by Chris Garces (Cornell University)
Garces Comparative Humanitarianism
“Comparative Humanitarianism,” viewable and available for download above, expands upon my lower-division undergraduate seminar, “Love™, Ltd.: Charity, Philanthropy, & Humanitarianism,” which I taught at Cornell and Sarah Lawrence College successively over the last two years (2008 and 2009). To my surprise, this latter course attracted the largest number
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Janelle Taylor on teaching "Perspectives in Medical Anthropology"
This post was contributed by Janelle Taylor (University of Washington).
In Tristes Tropiques, Claude Lévi-Strauss explained that it was his dread of teaching the same course over and over again that impelled him to travel to Brazil and pursue anthropology:
“After spending a happy year at the Mont de Marsan lycée, teaching and preparing my
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