Courses I teach

 
 
Anthropology 310
(offered yearly)
Culture and the Individual - (Identical to SOC 310).

Cultural and psychological dimensions of human development and human behavior.

Anthropology 536A
(offered yearly)

 

 

Anthropology of the Body, Health and Illness

Anthropology of the body health risk and illness; ethnophysiology and pathology; indigenous ideas about preventative and promotive health; folk dietetics; social labeling and the politics of responsibility. Draws upon cross-cultural ethnographic research and consideration of popular American health culture.

Anthropology 536B
(offered bi-yearly)
Prerequisite: 536A
Ethnomedicine

Indigenous medical systems and healing traditions, regional health arenas and health care seeking patterns, healing efficacy

Anthropology 571A
(offered bi-yearly)
Prerequisite: 536A
Applied Medical Anthropology in Western Contexts I

This intensive course covers items ranging from the anthropology of risk and diagnostic testing to medicalizations and the sick role, illness narratives to doctor-patient communication, health inequality and social epidemiology to the political economy of the American health care system and more.

Anthropology 675A/B
(Full year course)
Anthropology and International Health

This intensive course on the anthropology of health and development is problem based and theme driven.  Issues covered include child survival, maternal health, reproductive and sexual health, water borne diseases, vector borne diseases and political ecology, diseases of modernization, lifestyle diseases, pharmaceutical behavior, the household production of health, tobacco or health, family planning, demographic health and health care transition.