For those of us preparing to teach in the fall, August is not only a month of mosquito bites and leisurely naps on the beach, but also the time for writing or reworking our syllabi and course plans. So in the spirit of the month, we are presenting a small series of posts about teaching medical anthropology and related topics. …
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An archive of interviews with anthropologists
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| Alan Macfarlane interviews Clifford Geertz in 2004. |
As a number of anthro blogs have mentioned in the past, Alan Macfarlane, of the Department of Social Anthropology at Cambridge, has assembled a massive online archive of video materials, including a lot of in-depth interviews with anthropologists. The interviews, which were conducted over the past thirty years, range from a late-1970s …
Social science and humanities of medicine syllabus collections
I’m sure that many of you are already familiar with this resource, but I only came across it recently: the National Library of Medicine hosts a very impressive history of medicine syllabus archive. The collection is very well organized–it can be browsed by professor, course title, institution and subject–and comparatively up-to-date–most syllabi are from the past …
Teaching Anthropology of the Body
This term I’ve been teaching Anthropology of the Body, which is an upper-level undergraduate seminar at McGill. While I was putting together the syllabus I was particularly struck by the range of approaches to the topic; perhaps this isn’t surprising, but there are probably as many ways to frame and teach “anthropology of the body” as there are ways …
Bibliography on American medical education
Editor’s note: Drawing on feedback she received through the medical anthropology listserv, Betsey Brada (now a postdoc at Princeton University) put together this excellent reading list of the anthropological literature on American medical education. The bibliography includes works by medical anthropologists, social and cultural historians, as well as physician-writers like Atul Gawande and Jerome Groopman. A very useful resource for …
Public access books on medical anthropology
A nice resource for teaching:
The UC system’s California Digital Library has an extensive collection of electronic monographs (about 2000); while most of these are “open access” only to people in the UC system, about 500–mainly UC Press titles–are available in their entirety to the public.
These include a number of books which may be of interest to our readers. …