Course Form
I. Summary of Proposed Changes
Dept / Program
Anthropology
Prefix and Course #
ANTH 522
Course Title
Seminar in Medical Anthropology
Short Title (max. 26 characters incl. spaces)
Medical Anthropology
Summarize the change(s) proposed
Make ANTH 522 a permanent course (previously
taught twice as ANTH 595 course)
II. Endorsement/Approvals
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Date
Requestor:
Gilbert Quintero
Phone/ email :
5825
gilbert.quintero@umontana.edu
Program Chair/Director:
John Douglas
Other affected programs
None
Dean:
Christopher Comer
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modification because of
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(a) required courses incl. prerequisites or corequisites,
program (above) before submission
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(c) cross-listing of coursework
No.
III: To Add a New Course Syllabus and assessment information is required (paste syllabus into
section V or attach). Course should have internal coherence and clear focus.
NO
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in the MUS? Do the proposed abbreviation, number, title and credits align with
existing course(s)? Please indicate equivalent course/campus 
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G 522 Seminar in Medical Anthropology 3 cr. Offered autumn odd-numbered years.
An examination of selected issues and trends in contemporary theory and methodology within medical
anthropology. Seminar assignments and discussions focus on understanding the application of
anthropological concepts and methods in medical settings and are organized around several topics, including
cultural conceptualizations of health, illness and risk; global health; the social and cultural construction of
illness; drug and pharmaceutical use; and mental health in cultural context.
Justification: How does the course fit with the existing curriculum? Why is it needed?
Medical anthropology is one of the fastest growing and practically relevant fields within the discipline and is
consistently drawing greater student interest in our program, but our department currently does not provide a
graduate level course in this area. This course would join existing graduate level seminars in our program that
focus on specific sub-fields and interests (e.g., archeology, forensics) and will provide interested students
with an opportunity to develop expertise on social and cultural aspects of health and disease. This course is a
new addition to the department’s curriculum and is taught by a relatively new faculty member.
Are there curricular adjustments to accommodate teaching this course?
No.
Complete for UG courses. (UG courses should be assigned a 400 number).
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V. Syllabus/Assessment Information
Required for new courses and course change from U to UG. Paste syllabus in field below or attach and send
digital copy with form.
Gilbert Quintero, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Seminar in Medical Anthropology
ANTH 595, Section 03, Fall 2009
Phone: 243-5825
W 1:10-4:00pm
Office: SS 224
SS Room 252
Office hours: TWR 11:10-12:00
Email: gilbert.quintero@umontana.edu
Course Description
This seminar will provide a critical overview of selected issues in the field of medical anthropology – the
study of human health, disease and healing in a cross-cultural perspective. It will include consideration of a
range of theoretical and methodological approaches to various aspects of health, disease and medicine. In
general terms the course has two principal emphases: 1) understanding the application of anthropological
concepts and methods in medical settings; and 2) examining major issues and trends in contemporary theory
and methodology. The course is organized around several topics, including cultural conceptualizations of
health, illness and risk; global health; the social and cultural construction of illness, drugs and
pharmaceuticals; as well as mental health, gender, race, and ethnicity. Each student will develop their
expertise in these areas through assigned readings and focused discussions and will expand their knowledge
base by producing a research paper on an approved topic in medical anthropology.
Course Requirements
Active participation in discussions
Leading discussions
Research paper
Professional presentation
Points
10
40
40
10
Discussions: Each student is required to read the materials assigned for each particular class period, to attend
class and to engage in productive critical discussion. Your ability to articulate and analyze the reading
materials and the ideas of your classmates in an in-depth fashion will be crucial to your success in this course.
A portion of this grade will be determined by the instructor’s subjective assessment of the student’s
performance of discussion guidelines.
Students will also be evaluated on their discussion leadership performance. At least one student will be
assigned the role of presenter for each class. This student will have a command of the assigned readings and
organize and facilitate the class discussion. This will include providing productive, academic discussion
questions to the class, presenting key concepts, and co-leading discussion with the instructor and any other
assigned student presenters.
Each participant in this seminar will lead (or, in a few cases, co-lead) the discussion during at least three class
sessions during the semester. As discussion leader, you are expected to briefly (no more than 10 minutes)
summarize the reading(s) you were assigned, withholding any critical comments for the classroom discussion
that follows. Pedagogically, I want us to find the value in each reading, rather than only looking for faults. As
part of your role as discussion leader, you should printout a list of what you consider to be the major
questions or issues for discussion raised by the reading(s) for each member of the class. In addition, this
printout should highlight and define any special terms or concepts that are important in the reading. Your job
is to systematically cover these questions and concepts during the course of the discussion, as well as
facilitate the seminar more generally (e.g., keep the discussion focused, introduce questions, etc.).
This seminar is intended to be an intellectual venue where we engage each other, courteously and
constructively, in thoughtful discussions concerning anthropology and health. Everyone is expected to
participate in these discussions, which are meant to be thought-provoking, focused and rigorous.
Research Paper: Your assignment is to write a professional quality scholarly research paper on an approved
topic in medical anthropology. This paper will be similar in style and content to what one sees in an
academic, peer-reviewed journal. The paper will not simply be descriptive, but analytically focused on issues,
theory and/or methodology. Ideally, the final paper should be publishable.
A complete assignment for this course component will consist of the following:
1. An abstract and preliminary bibliography: Each student will submit a 150-250 word abstract that
includes a descriptive title with a theme or topic name and a preliminary bibliography of up to eight
references.
2. A research paper: Each student will complete a research paper on a topic approved by the instructor.
The body of this paper must be 22-25 pages in length, typed, double-spaced, in 12-point Times New
Roman or Arial font with 1-inch margins all around. Please spell and grammar check your document
and provide a bibliography. The paper should conform to the American Anthropological Association
style guide found at: http://www.aaanet.org/publications/style_guide.pdf
Professional presentation: Each student will conduct a professional, academic oral presentation of 15 minutes
in duration based upon their research paper.
Policies
Hard copies: Unless explicitly noted, all written assignments must be turned in as hard copies. Electronic
submissions will not be accepted.
Students with Disabilities: University policy states that it is the responsibility of students with documented
disabilities to contact instructors during the first week of the semester to discuss appropriate accommodations
to ensure equity in grading, classroom experiences, and outside assignments. The instructor will work with
the student and the staff of the Disability Services for Students (DSS) to arrange accommodations. Students
should contact Jim Marks in DSS (243.2373, Lommasson Center 154) for more information.
Email: Please conduct all class related email communications with me through your Grizmail account.
Late assignments: Late assignments are not generally accepted.
Course Supplement
A web-based supplement for this class is available on Blackboard at: https://courseware.umt.edu/.
Technical Support for Blackboard is available at: http://www.umt.edu/xls/techsupport/default.aspx.
Required Course Textbook
Nichter, M. 2008. Global Health: Why Cultural Perceptions, Social Representations, and Biopolitics Matter.
University of Arizona Press. ISBN: 0816525749.
Week/Date
1/Sep 2
2/Sep 9
3/Sep 16
4/Sep 23
5/Sep 30
6/Oct 7
7/Oct 14
Schedule
Topics & Notes
Introduction to the Course
Cultural Conceptualizations of Health, Illness & Risk (Abstracts due)
Biocultural & Ecological Approaches to Health
The Body
The Semantics of Illness & the Social Construction of Health
Globalization, Neoliberalism & Health
Pharmaceuticals
8/Oct 21
9/Oct 28
10/Nov 4
11/Nov 11
12/Nov 18
13/Nov 25
14/Dec 2
15/Dec 9
16/Dec 15
Mental Health
Gender & Health
Alcohol, Tobacco & Drug Use
Veterans’ Day Holiday
The Life Course
Thanksgiving Holiday
Race, Ethnicity & Health Disparities
Global Health (Research papers due)
Presentations (Tuesday 3:20-5:20)
Complete lists of required readings for each week are available on Blackboard.
Reading assignments for each week should be completed by the date outlined in this schedule.
This syllabus provides a general plan for the course. Deviations may be necessary.
Reading Assignments
Week 1
Armelagos, George J., Peter J. Brown, and Bethany Turner
2005 Evolutionary, Historical and Political Economic Perspectives on
Health and Disease. Social Science & Medicine 61:755–765.
Dressler, William W.
2001 Medical Anthropology: Toward a Third Moment in Social Science? Medical Anthropology
Quarterly 15(4):455-465.
Levin, Betty Wolder, and C.H Browner
2005 The Social Production of Health: Critical Contributions from Evolutionary, Biological, and
Cultural Anthropology. Social Science & Medicine 61:745–750.
Pelto, Pertti J. Gretel H. Pelto
1997 Studying Knowledge, Culture, and Behavior in Applied Medical Anthropology.
Medical Anthropology Quarterly 11(2): 147-116.
Young, Allan
1982 The Anthropologies of Illness and Sickness. Annual Review of Anthropology 11:257-285.
Week 2
Arnold, R., A.V. Ranchor, G.H. Koeter, M.J.L. de Jongste, R. Sanderman
2005 Consequences of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Chronic Heart Failure: The
Relationship Between Objective and Subjective Health. Social Science & Medicine 61:2144–
2154.
Aronowitz, Robert
2008 Framing Disease: An Underappreciated Mechanism for the Social Patterning of Health. Social
Science & Medicine 67:1-9.
Brouwer, W.B.F. and J. A. van Exel
2005 Expectations Regarding Length and Health Related Quality of Life: Some Empirical Findings.
Social Science & Medicine 61:1083–1094.
Davison, C., G. D. Smith, and S. Frankel
1991 Lay Epidemiology and the Prevention Paradox: The Implications of Coronary Candidacy for
Health Education. Sociology of Health & Illness 13(1):1-19.
Garro, L. C.
2002 Hallowell's Challenge: Explanations of Illness and Cross-Cultural Research. Anthropological
Theory 2(1):77-97.
Izquierdo, C.
2005 When ‘‘Health’’ Is Not Enough: Societal, Individual and Biomedical Assessments of WellBeing Among the Matsigenka of the Peruvian Amazon. Social Science & Medicine 61:767–783.
Lawton, J.
2002 Colonising the Future: Temporal Perceptions and Health-Relevant Behaviours Across the Adult
Lifecourse. Sociology of Health & Illness 24(6): 714–733.
Lupton, D. and S. Chapman
1995 'A Healthy Lifestyle Might Be The Death of You': Discourses on Diet, Cholesterol Control and
Heart Disease in The Press and Among The Lay Public. Sociology of Health & Illness
17(4):477-494.
Press, N. S. Reynolds, L. Pinsky, V. Murthy, M. Leo, W. Burke
2005 ‘That’s Like Chopping Off a Finger Because You’re Afraid It Might Get Broken’: Disease and
Illness in Women’s Views of Prophylactic Mastectomy. Social Science & Medicine 61:1106–
1117.
Sachs, L.
1996 Causality, Responsibility and Blame -- Core Issues in the Cultural Construction and Subtext of
Prevention. Sociology of Health & Illness 18(5):632-652.
Week 3
Dressler, W.
2005 What’s Cultural about Biocultural Research? Ethos 33(1):20–45.
Leatherman, T.L.
1996 A Biocultural Perspective on Health and Household Economy in Southern Peru. Medical
Anthropology Quarterly 10(4):476-495.
2005 A Space of Vulnerability in Poverty and Health: Political Ecology and Biocultural Analysis.
Ethos 33(1):46-70.
McElroy, A.
1990 Biocultural Models in Studies of Human Health and Adaptation. Medical Anthropology
Quarterly 4(3):243-265.
Oths, Kathryn S.
1998 Assessing Variation in Health Status in the Andes: A Biocultural Model. Social Science &
Medicine 47(8):1017-1030.
Pedersen, D.
1996 Disease Ecology at a Crossroads: Man-Made Environments, Human Rights And Perpetual
Development Utopias. Social Science & Medicine 43(5):745-758.
Roseberry, William
1998 Political Economy and Social Fields. In Building a New Biocultural Synthesis, A.H. Goodman
and T.L. Leatherman, eds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Pp.75-91.
Singer, Merrill
1989 The Limitations of Medical Ecology. Medical Anthropology 10:223-234.
Whiteford, L.M.
1997 The Ethnoecology of Dengue Fever. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 11(2):202-223.
Wiley, A. S.
1992 Adaptation and the Biocultural Paradigm in Medical Anthropology: A Critical Review. Medical
Anthropology Quarterly 6:216-236.
Week 4
Borre, K.
1991 Seal Blood, Inuit Blood, and Diet: A Biocultural Model of Physiology and Cultural Identity.
Medical Anthropology Quarterly 5(1):48-62.
Csordas, T.J.
1993 Somatic Modes of Attention. Cultural Anthropology. 8(2):135-156.
Everett, Margaret
2003 The Social Life of Genes: Privacy, Property and the New Genetics. Social Science & Medicine
56:53–65.
Joralemon, D.
1995 Organ Wars: The Battle for Body Parts. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 9(3):335-356.
Kroeger, K.A.
2003 AIDS Rumors, Imaginary Enemies, and The Body Politic in Indonesia. American Ethnologist
30 (2): 243-257.
Martin, M.
1992 The End of the Body? American Ethnologist 12:121-140.
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.
Sobo, E.J.
1993 Bodies, Kin, and Flow: Family Planning in Rural Jamaica. Medical Anthropology Quarterly
7(1):50-73.
Whitaker, Elizabeth D.
2003 The Idea of Health: History, Medical Pluralism, and the Management of the Body in EmiliaRomagna, Italy. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 17(3):348-375.
Week 5
Baer, R.D., S.C. Weller, J. Garcia De Alba Garcia, A.L. Salcedo Rocha
2004 A Comparison of Community and Physician Explanatory Models of AIDS in Mexico and the
United States Medical Anthropology Quarterly 18(1):3-22.
Chavez, L.R., J.M. McMullin, S.I. Mishra, and F.A. Hubbell
2001 Beliefs Matter: Cultural Beliefs and the Use of Cervical Cancer-Screening Tests. American
Anthropologist 103:1114-1129.
Cunningham-Burley, Sarah, Kathryn Backett-Milburn and Debbie Kemmer
2006 Constructing Health and Sickness in the Context of Motherhood and Paid Work. Sociology of
Health & Illness 28(4):385–409.
Fife, Betsy L. and Eric R. Wright
2000 The Dimensionality of Stigma: A Comparison of Its Impact on the Self of Persons with
HIV/AIDS and Cancer. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 41(1):50-67.
Henry, R.R.
1999 Measles, Hmong, and Metaphor: Culture Change and Illness Management under Conditions of
Immigration. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 13(1):32-50.
Langwick, Stacey A.
2007 Devils, Parasites, and Fierce Needles Healing and the Politics of Translation in Southern
Tanzania. Science, Technology & Human Values. 32(1):88-117.
Pfeiffer, James
2004 Condom Social Marketing, Pentecostalism, and Structural Adjustment in Mozambique: A Clash
of AIDS Prevention Messages. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 18(1):77-103.
Schoenberg, Nancy E. and Elaine M. Drew
2002 Articulating Silences: Experiential and Biomedical Constructions of Hypertension
Symptomatology. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 16(4):458-475.
Schwarz, M.T.
2001 Allusions to Ancestral Impropriety: Understandings of Arthritis and Rheumatism in the
Contemporary Navajo World. American Ethnologist 28(3):650-678.
Sibthorpe, Beverly
1992 The Social Construction of Sexual Relationships as a Determinant of HIV Risk Perception and
Condom Use among Injection Drug Users. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 6(3):255-270.
Tapias, Maria
2006 Emotions and the Intergenerational Embodiment of Social Suffering in Rural Bolivia. Medical
Anthropology Quarterly 20(3):399–415.
Ware, Norma C.
1992 Suffering and the Social Construction of Illness: The Delegitimation of Illness Experience in
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 6(4): 347-361.
Week 6
Briggs, C.L., and D.C. Hallin
2007 Biocommunicability: The Neoliberal Subject and its Contradictions in News Coverage of Health
Issues. Social Text 25(4):43-66.
Cunningham, Hilary
1998 Colonial Encounters in Post-Colonial Contexts: Patenting Indigenous DNA and the Human
Genome Diversity Project. Critique of Anthropology 18(2):205-233.
Foley, E. E.
2008 Social Hierarchy and Therapeutic Decision Making in Senegal. Medical Anthropology
Quarterly 22(3):257-273.
Galley, A.
2009 City of Plagues?: Toronto, SARS, and the Anxieties of Globalization. Explorations in
Anthropology 9(1):133-142.
Horton, S.
2004 Different Subjects: The Health Care System’s Participation in the Differential Construction of
the Cultural Citizenship of Cuban Refugees and Mexican Immigrants. Medical Anthropology
Quarterly 18(4):472–489.
Janes, C. R., and O. Chuluundorj
2004 Free Markets and Dead Mothers: The Social Ecology of Maternal Mortality in Post-Socialist
Mongolia. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 18(2):230-257.
Keane, C.
1998 Globality and Constructions of World Health. Medical Anthropology Quarterly: 226-240.
Lakoff, A.
2005 Diagnostic Liquidity: Mental Illness and the Global Trade in DNA. Theory and Society
34(1):63-92.
Nguyen, V., C. Ako, P. Niamba, A. Sylla, and I. Tiendrebeogo
2007 Adherence as Therapeutic Citizenship: Impact of the History of Access to Antiretroviral Drugs
on Adherence to Treatment. AIDS 21(suppl. 5):S31–S35.
Petryna, A.
2005 Ethical Variability: Drug Development and Globalizing Clinical Trials. American Ethnologist
32(2):183-197.
Rylko-Bauer, B., and P. Farmer
2002 Managed Care or Managed Inequality? A Call for Critiques of Market-Based Medicine. Medical
Anthropology Quarterly 16(4):476-502.
Scheper-Hughes, N.
2000 The Global Traffic in Human Organs. Current Anthropology 41(2):191-224.
Week 7
Anglin, M.K., and J.C. White
1999 Poverty, Health Care, and Problems of Prescription Medication: A Case Study. Substance Use &
Misuse 34:2073-2093.
Bardhi, F., S. J. Sifaneck, B. D. Johnson, and E. Dunlap
2007 Pills, Thrills and Bellyaches: Case Studies of Prescription Pill Use and Misuse among
Marijuana/Blunt Smoking Middle Class Young Women. Contemporary Drug Problems
34(1):53-101.
Healy, David
2006 Manufacturing Consensus. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 30(2):135-156.
Kirmayer, L. J.
2002 Psychopharmacology in a Globalizing World: The Use of Antidepressants in Japan.
Transcultural Psychiatry 39(3):295–322.
Rasmussen, Nicolas
2006 Making the First Anti-Depressant: Amphetamine in American Medicine, 1929–1950. Journal of
the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 61(3):288-323.
Rose, N.
2003 Neurochemical Selves. Society 41(1):46-59.
Smardon, R.
2008 “I’d Rather Not Take Prozac”: Stigma and Commodification in Antidepressant Consumer
Narratives. Health 12(1):67–86.
Vuckovic, N.
1999 Fast Relief: Buying Time with Medications. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 13:51-68.
Williams, S. J., C. Seale, S. Boden, P. Lowe, and D. L. Steinberg
2008 Waking Up to Sleepiness: Modafinil, the Media and the Pharmaceuticalisation of Everday/Night
Life. Sociology of Health and Illness 30(6):839–855.
Wolf-Meyer, M.
2009 Precipitating Pharmakologies and Capital Entrapments: Narcolepsy and the Strange Cases of
Provigil and Xyrem. Medical Anthropology 28(1):11–30.
Week 8
Baer, R.D., S.C. Weller, J. De Alba Garcia, et al.
2003 A Cross-Cultural Approach to the Study of the Folk Illness Nervios. Culture, Medicine
& Psychiatry 27:315–337.
Dzokoto, V.A. and G. Adams
2005 Understanding Genital-Shrinking Epidemics In West Africa: Koro, Juju, or Mass
Psychogenic Illness? Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry 29:53–78.
Good, B.J.
1997 Studying Mental Illness in Context: Local, Global, or Universal? Ethos 5(2):230-248.
Halliburton, M.
2005 "Just Some Spirits": The Erosion of Spirit Possession and the Rise of "Tension" in South
India. Medical Anthropology 24(2):111-144.
Kleinman, A. and J. Kleinman
1999 The Transformation of Everyday Social Experience: What a Mental and Social Health
Perspective Reveals About Chinese Communities Under Global and Local Change.
Culture Medicine & Psychiatry 23(1):7-24.
Kohrt, Brandon A., Richard D. Kunz, Jennifer L. Baldwin, et al.
2005 “Somatization’’ and “Comorbidity’’: A Study of Jhum-Jhum and Depression in Rural
Nepal. Ethos 33(1):125–147.
Lewis-Fernández, R., P.J. Guarnaccia, I.E. Martínez, et al.
2002 Comparative Phenomenology of Ataques De Nervios, Panic Attacks, and Panic
Disorder. Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry 26:199–223.
Okello, E.S. and S. Neema
2007 Explanatory Models and Help-Seeking Behavior: Pathways to Psychiatric Care Among
Patients Admitted for Depression in Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda. Qualitative
Health Research 17(1):14-25.
O'Nell, T. D.
1999 "Coming Home" among Northern Plains Vietnam Veterans: Psychological
Transformations in Pragmatic Perspective. Ethos 27(4):441-465.
Raguram, R., M.G. Weiss, H. Keval, and S.M. Channabasavanna
2001 Cultural Dimensions of Clinical Depression in Bangalore, India. Anthropology &
Medicine 8(1):31-46.
Storck, M., T. J. Csordas, and M. Strauss
2000 Depressive Illness and Navajo Healing. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 14(4): 571597.
Willging, C., H. Waitzkin, and W. Wagner
2005 Medicaid Managed Care for Mental Health Services in a Rural State. Journal of Health
Care for the Poor and Underserved 16:497–514.
Week 9
Asencio, Marysol W.
1999 Machos and Sluts: Gender, Sexuality, and Violence among a Cohort of
Puerto Rican Adolescents. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 13(1):107-112.
Brewis, Alexandra and Karen L. Schmidt
2003 Gender Variation in the Identification of Mexican Children's Psychiatric Symptoms
Medical Anthropology Quarterly 17(3):376-393.
Chapple, Alison, and Sue Ziebland
2002 Prostate Cancer: Embodied Experience and Perceptions of Masculinity.
Sociology of Health & Illness 24(6):820–841.
Davis, Dona L.
1997 Blood and Nerves Revisited: Menopause and the Privatization of the Body in a
Newfoundland Postindustrial Fishery. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 11(1):3-20.
Farmer, Paul
1988 Bad Blood, Spoiled Milk: Bodily Fluids as Moral Barometers in Rural Haiti. American
Ethnologist 15(1):62-83.
Olujic, Maria B.
1998 Embodiment of Terror: Gendered Violence in Peacetime and Wartime in Croatia and
Bosnia-Herzegovina. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 12(1):31-50.
Potts, Annie, Victoria Grace, Nicola Gavey, and Tiina Vares
2004 ‘‘Viagra Stories’’: Challenging ‘Erectile Dysfunction.’ Social Science & Medicine
59:489–499.
Whitehead, Tony L.
1997 Urban Low-Income African American Men, HIV/AIDS, and Gender Identity. Medical
Anthropology Quarterly 11(4):411-447.
Week 10
Agar, M. and H.S. Reisinger
2002 A Tale of Two Policies: The French Connection, Methadone, and Heroin Epidemics. Culture,
Medicine & Psychiatry 26:371–396.
Ames, G., C. Schmidt, L. Klee, and R. Saltz
1996 Combining Methods to Identify New Measures of Women’s Drinking Problems Part I: The
Ethnographic Stage. Addiction 91:829–844.
Bourgois, P.
2000 Disciplining Addictions: The Bio-politics of Methadone and Heroin in the United States.
Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry 24(2):165-195.
Brady, M.
1995 Culture in Treatment, Culture as Treatment. A Critical Appraisal of Developments in Addictions
Programs for Indigenous North Americans and Australians. Social Science & Medicine
41(11):1487-1498.
Haines, R.J., B.D. Poland, and J.L. Johnson
2009 Becoming a 'Real' Smoker: Cultural Capital in Young Women's Accounts of Smoking and Other
Substance Use. Sociology of Health & Illness 31(1):66-80.
Hunt, G., K. Evans, and F. Kares
2007 Drug Use and Meanings of Risk and Pleasure. Journal of Youth Studies 10(1): 73-96.
Jervis, L.L., P. Spicer, S. M. Manson and the AI-SUPEPPFP Team
2003 Boredom, "Trouble," and the Realities of Postcolonial Reservation Life. Ethos 31(1):38-58.
Measham, F.
2006 The New Policy Mix: Alcohol, Harm Minimisation, and Determined Drunkenness in
Contemporary Society. International Journal of Drug Policy 17(4):258-268.
Prussing, E.
2008 Sobriety and its Cultural Politics: An Ethnographer's Perspective on "Culturally Appropriate"
Addiction Services in Native North America. Ethos 36(3):354-375.
Reisinger, H. S.
2004 Counting Apples as Oranges: Epidemiology and Ethnography in Adolescent Substance Abuse
Treatment. Qualitative Health Research 14(2):241.
Saris, A. Jamie
2008 An Uncertain Dominion: Irish Psychiatry, Methadone, and the Treatment of Opiate Abuse.
Culture Medicine & Psychiatry 32:259–277.
Stromberg, P., M. Nichter, and M. Nichter
2007 Taking Play Seriously: Low-Level Smoking Among College Students. Culture, Medicine &
Psychiatry 31(1):1-24.
Strunin, L.
2001 Assessing Alcohol Consumption: Developments from Qualitative Research Methods. Social
Science & Medicine 53(2):215-226.
Week 12
Backett, K.C. and C. Davison
1995 Lifecourse and Lifestyle: The Social and Cultural Location of Health Behaviors. Social
Science & Medicine 40:629-638.
Browner, C.H.
2000 Situating Women's Reproductive Activities. American Anthropologist 102(4):773-788.
Georges, Eugenia
1996 Fetal Ultrasound Imaging and the Production of Authoritative Knowledge in Greece.
Medical Anthropology Quarterly 10(2):157-175.
Johnson, Nancy, Deborah Cook, Mita Giacomini, and Dennis Willms
2000 Towards a “Good” Death: End-of-Life Narratives Constructed in an Intensive Care Unit.
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Laftman, Sara Brolin, and Viveca Ostberg
2006 The Pros and Cons of Social Relations: An Analysis of Adolescents’ Health Complaints.
Social Science & Medicine 63:611–623.
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2000 Daily and Lifecourse Contexts of Smoking. Sociology of Health & Illness 22:289-309.
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2001 Gender, Body, Biomedicine: How Some Feminist Concerns Dragged Reproduction to
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2004 The Rhetoric of ‘‘Natural’’ in Natural Childbirth: Childbearing Women’s Perspectives
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1999 Dying in Country: Implications of Culture in the Delivery of Palliative Care in
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Week 14
Armelagos, George J. and Alan H. Goodman
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2005 Race and Ethnicity in Public Health Research: Models to Explain Health Disparities. Annual
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2005 Skin Pigmentation, Self-Perceived Color, and Arterial Blood Pressure in Puerto Rico. American
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2008 Race, Ethnicity, and Racism in Medical Anthropology, 1977-2002. Medical Anthropology
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2009 Epigenetics and the Embodiment of Race: Developmental Origins of US Racial Disparities in
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2009 "Race" and "Ethnicity" in Biomedical Research: How do Scientists Construct and Explain
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2003 Racial Differences in DSM Diagnosis Using a Semi-Structured Instrument: The Importance of
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Week 15
Nichter, M.
2008 Global Health: Why Cultural Perceptions, Social Representations, and Biopolitics Matter.
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VI Department Summary (Required if several forms are submitted) In a separate document list course
number, title, and proposed change for all proposals.
VII Copies and Electronic Submission. After approval, submit original, one copy, summary of
proposals and electronic file to the Faculty Senate Office, UH 221, camie.foos@mso.umt.edu.
Revised 11-2009