Lectures

December 6, 2021

Ask-Me-Almost-Anything (AMAA): Centering Student Engagement with Ethnographic Monographs

This article is part of the series: Ask-Me-Almost-Anything (AMAA): Centering Student Engagement with Ethnographic Monographs

“Why is this a book?” The student who volunteered this question during a class discussion could not have known how meaningful – and unsettling – I found the earnest query. Their curiosity, I think, stemmed from the observation that each of the chapters could have existed independently as articles. They were also interested in whether anthropologists typically embraced other formats …

Teaching Resources

December 11, 2020

Ethnographic books for teaching and learning about Medical Anthropology: a list

By Amy Cooper

I’m an “expert” at overhauling syllabi. At least, I should be. I’ve taught a medical anthropology course almost every term for the past ten years, and no matter what promises I’ve made to myself, I can’t stop making changes when it’s time to teach again. All new assignments, new books, switching from articles to books and vice versa — I’ve …

Lectures

September 20, 2019

Syndemics: Considerations for Interdisciplinary Research

By Rosalynn Vega

In this short piece, I explore how medical anthropology could be deployed through interdisciplinary collaborations in a way that is both theoretically rich and poised to positively impact health outcomes. In particular, I consider how research agendas focused on improving health care outcomes reveal certain limitations and underlying assumptions within the discipline. What types of methodological shifts might occur if …

Features Teaching Resources

January 19, 2018

Teaching Medical Anthropology

By Thomas A Williamson

This article is part of the series: Experiments with pedagogy

I am grateful to those who have shared their medical anthropology syllabi here and thought I would add mine to the mix. There is so much one could cover in a med anthro course! I am always concerned with overwhelming my students, especially those not only new to the subdiscipline but also to anthropology and even to social science (ah, …

Features

August 17, 2017

Reproducing the Speculative: Reproductive Technology, Education, and Science Fiction

By Kaitlyn Sherman

This article is part of the series: Speculative Health

Walter, a Synthetic, quietly makes his rounds in the brightly lit, pristine interior of the Covenant, a Weyland Corporation Spaceship. Fingers pressed to the translucent, impermeable glass, he checks the status of each crew member as they rest in their cryochambers, suspended in chemically-induced comas until they reach their destined planet in seven years and four months’ time. The …

Features

March 15, 2016

Enhancing learning and teaching about mental health in higher education

By Hanna Kienzler

This article is part of the series: Experiments with pedagogy

An interview with Jill Anderson about the Mental Health in Higher Education project

mhhe can be found at www.mhhehub.ning.com and, on twitter, @mhhehub.

The UK-based project Mental Health in Higher Education (mhhe) sets out to increase networking and sharing innovative approaches to learning and teaching about mental health and distress across the disciplines …

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