Postgraduate Course: Anthropology and International Health (PGSP11072)
Course Outline
| School | School of Social and Political Science |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Postgrad (School of Social and Political Studies) |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | Anthropology increasingly deals with issues of international health. On the one hand, anthropolgists who work in applied contexts aim at translating public health knowledge and policy into effective action. Simultaneously, many anthropologists reflect critically on how governmental health initiatives are increasingly central to everyday life and how health organisations are unfolding a transnational 'government of the body'. In this course, we explore the tension between these different standpoints along case studies on how anthropology engages with international health agendas. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2012/13 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| Central | Lecture | Seminar Room 6, Chrystal Macmillan Building | 1-11 | | | 09:00 - 10:50 | | |
| First Class |
First class information not currently available |
| Additional information |
One essay of approximately 4,000 words. |
| No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
- have an advanced understanding of both applied and critical anthropology in relation to international health
- grasp the relationship between globalization and health from an anthropological perspective
- have developed an appreciation of how an anthropological understanding of international health can be applied to health systems in the U.K..
- engage anthropological arguments in relation to health policy and practice
- set their own anthropological research agenda in relating to global health issues
- prepare and present scholarly work for seminars and publications |
Assessment Information
| One essay of approximately 4,000 words. |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
Week 1: Introduction, Anthropology and Public Health
Week 2: Infections and Globalisation; Metaphors of contagion and their effects
Week 3: Infectious Disease and Globalisation 2: TB and Critical Medical Anthropology
Week 4: Anthropology and HIV/AIDS
Week 5: Pharmaceuticals in Global Perspective
Week 6: Bioethics in Global Context
Week 7: Violence and Health
Week 8: Global Mental Health
Week 9: Incorporating nonbiomedical healers into primary health care
Week 10: Rethinking Biopolitics; Medicine, the State and beyond
Week 11: No lecture. Reading and Essay Writing. |
| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
Arnold, D. 1993. Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Baer, H.A., Singer, M. & Susser, I. 1997. Medical Anthropology and the World System: A Critical Perspective. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey.
Briggs C & C Mantini-Briggs 2003. Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London. University of California Press.
Brodwin P, 1996 Medicine and Morality In Haiti: the Contest for Healing Power. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Desjarlais, R., Eisenberg, L., Good, B.J. & Kleinman, A. (Eds.). 1995. World Mental Health: Priorities, Problems, and Responses in Low-Income Countries. New York: Oxford University Press.
Farmer P, 1992. AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the geography of blame. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: 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.
Hacking, I. 1999. The Social Construction of What? Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Hewlett B & B Hewlett 2006. Ebola, Culture and Politics: The Anthropology of an Emerging Disease. Wadsworth.
Justice J, 1986. Policies, Plans, & People: Culture and Health Development in Nepal. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press.
Moerman, D. 2002. Meaning, Medicine and the 'Placebo Effect'. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ong A & S Collier (eds) 2005. Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems. Malden MA, Oxford, Carlton: Blackwell Publishing
Petryna, A. 2002. Life Exposed: Biological Citizens After Chernobyl. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Scheper-Hughes, N. 1992. Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Skultans V and Cox J, 2000. Anthropological approaches to psychological medicine: Crossing Bridges. London and Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsly Publishers.
Treichler, P. 1999. How to Have a Theory in an Epidemic: Cultural Chronicles of AIDS. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Trostle, J. 2005. Epidemiology and culture. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Vaughan M, 1991. Curing their ills: colonial power and African illness. Stanford University Press.
Young, A. 1995. The Harmony of Illusions: Inventing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Ian Harper
Tel: (0131 6)50 3816
Email: |
Course secretary | Miss Madina Howard
Tel: (0131 6)51 1659
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