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	Topics
	Week 1	Introduction: illness, disease, sickness and suffering
	Week 2	Sick role, medicalization, and cultural syndromes
	Week 2 supp	Risk, vulnerability, and the meaning and interpretation of medical tests
	Week 3	Meaning centered and knowledge production approaches to studying the illness experience
	Week 4	Illness Narratives- part one
	Week 5	Illness Narratives- part two
	Week 6a	Illness ethnographies: appreciating the works of illness. Case study: Cancer, cancer screening
	Week 7	Illness ethnographies, Case studies, diabetes, hypertension
	Week 8	Somatization: chronic pain, PTSD
	Week 9	Meaning and social relations of medications, adherence and compliance
	Week 10-11	Practitioners - Patient Interaction, and Communicaton Practitioners - Patient Negotiation, Patient as Consumer, Problem Patients
	Week 12	Health care seeking process and therapy management groups; social networks, social support and health
	Week 13	A: Social class -- income inequality and and health B: Race/Ethnic Inequalities and Health C: Evidence Based Medicine and Emergent Socio-Epidemiologic Theory
	Week 14	A: Corporate Medicine B: Alternative Medicine
	Week 14 (new)	Culture of Biomedicine, Alternative, Integrated medicine
	Week 15	Beyond straw man debates in medical anthropology