B8096 - Medical Anthropology (2) (LM)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, students know the main possibilities for applying anthropology in health-care and community contexts; they master the skills to design and implement forms of anthropological intervention in health promotion processes and contexts. They are also capable of working in interdisciplinary and multi-methodological settings.

Course contents

This course: B8096 - MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY (2) (LM) - 6 cfu is  for students who have already passed the exam for: B8095 - MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY (1) (LM) - 6 cfu. 
The course will focus mainly on the practical applications of the discipline, both at the clinical level and at the social and community level.
The central theme of the course will be the rethinking of the concept of health and its promotion.

Readings/Bibliography

There are no differences in the programme for non-attending students, given the additional commitment required for non-attending study.
Non-attending students must prepare two texts, while attending students can choose whether to prepare two texts or only the first one and to participate in the group work organized by the lecturer and described below.
The exam texts are:

1. Pizza, G. (2005), Antropologia medica. Saperi, pratiche e politiche del corpo, Roma, Carocci.

2. One volume, not already studied for Medical Anthropology (1), among the following:

AA.VV., (2006) Sofferenza Sociale, Annuario di Antropologia, Vol. 8. Roma, Meltemi.

Adams Vincanne (ed.), 2016, Metrics: What Counts in Global Health, Duke University Press Books

Antze P., Lambek M. (1996), Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory, Routledge

Arnold, D. (1993). Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Beneduce R., (2007), Etnopsichiatria. Sofferenza mentale e alterità fra storia, dominio e cultura, Carocci.

Beneduce R., (2010), Archeologia del trauma. Antropologia del sottosuolo, Laterza, Roma-Bari.

Biehl J. (2005), Vita: Life In A Zone Of Social Abandonment, University of California Press

Biehl João, (2009), Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival. Princeton University Press.

Biehl João and Adriana Petryna (eds), 2013, When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Bourgois, Fassin, Heggenhougen, Nordstrom, (2009), Global Health in Times of Violence, School for Advanced Research Press.

Castellano V., (2018) Revolving door. I servizi per i minori e la riproduzione delle disuguaglianze a New York, Reggio Emilia, edizioni Junior.

Cola M., (2012), Ragionevolmente differenti. Una riflessione antropologica su Sindrome di Asperger e Disturbo dello Spettro Autistico, I libri bi Emil, Bologna.

Cozzi, D., (2007), Le imperfezioni del silenzio. Riflessioni antropologiche sulla depressione femminile in un'area alpina. Roma, Bonanno Editore.

Csordas, T.J (1993) The Sacred Self: A Cultural Phenomenology of Charismatic healing. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Csordas, T.J., (2002), Body/Meaning/Healing. New York: Palgrave.

Das Veena, (2024), La violenza e la discesa nell'ordinario, Roma, Castelvecchi

Ehrenberg A., (1999), La fatica di essere se stessi, Torino, Einaudi.

Fainzang S. (2009), Farmaci e società. Il paziente, il medico e la ricetta, Franco Angeli.

Farmer, P., (1992), AIDS and accusation: Haiti and the geography of blame, Berkeley, University of California Press.

Farmer, P., (1999), Infections and inequalities. The modern plagues, Berkeley, 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.

Farmer, Paul, Margaret Connors, and Janie Simmons, (1996), Women, Poverty, and AIDS: Sex, Drugs, and Structural Violence. Monroe: Common Courage Press.

Fassin D., (1996), L'espace politique de la santé. Essai de généalogie. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France.

Fassin Didier, (2016), Quando i corpi ricordano. Esperienze e politiche dell'Aids in Sudafrica, Lecce, Argo

Fassin Didier, (2016), Ragione umanitaria. Una storia morale del presente, DeriveApprodi

Fassin Didier, (2023), The Worlds of Public Health: Anthropological Excursions, Polity Press

Fassin D. e Pandolfi M. (a cura di) (2010), Contemporary States of Emergency: The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions, Zone Books.

Fassin Didier, Richard Rechtman, 2020, L'impero del trauma. Nascita della condizione di vittima, Meltemi

Fassin, D.; Fourcade, M., (a cura di), (2022), Pandemic Exposures: Economy and Society in the Time of Coronavirus, Hau, The University of Chicago Press.

Fausto-Sterling A. (2020, updated edition), Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality, Basic Books.

Feldman I., M. Ticktin (eds.) 2010, In the name of humanity. The government of threat and care, Duke University Press.

Good B., 2006 (1994), Narrare la malattia. Lo sguardo antropologico sul rapporto medico-paziente. Torino, Edizioni di comunità (Einaudi).

Gribaldo A., (2005), La natura scomposta. Riproduzione assistita, genere, parentela. Luca Sossella Editore

Guerzoni Corinna Sabrina, 2020, Sistemi procreativi. Etnografia dell'omogenitorialità in Italia, Milano, Franco Angeli

Hacking Ian (2008), Plasmare le persone. Milano, Quattroventi.

Holmes Seth, (2023), Frutta fresca, corpi spezzati. Braccianti migranti negli Stati Uniti d’America, Milano, Meltemi

Inhorn Marcia C., Emily A. Wentzell (a cura di), (2012), Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Histories, Activisms, and Futures, DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Keshavjee, Salmaan, (2014), Blind Spot. How Neoliberalism Infiltrated Global Health, University of California Press.

Kleinman, A. (1995) Writing at the Margin: Discourse Between Anthropology and Medicine. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Kleinman, A. (2007), What Really Matters. Living a moral life amidst uncertainty and danger. Oxford University Press

Kleinman, A., Das, V. e Lock, M., (a cura), (1997), Social suffering, Berkeley, University of California Press.

Lock M., (1995), Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America. University of California Press.

Lock, M. (2001) Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death. University of California Press

Lock Margaret and Vinh-Kim Nguyen, (2018), An Anthropology of Biomedicine, (second edition), Wiley-Blackwell

Manderson, L.; Burke, N.J.; Wahlberg, A., (eds.), (2021), Viral Loads: Anthropologies of Urgency in the Time of Covid-19, London, UCL Press

Martin, E. (1987) The Woman in the Body. Beacon Press.

Martin, E. (1994) Flexible Bodies. Tracking Immunity in American Culture - From the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS. Boston: Beacon Press.

Martin Emily, (2009), Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture, Princeton University Press

Mattalucci C., (2017), Antropologia e riproduzione. Attese, fratture e ricomposizioni della procreazione e della genitorialità in Italia. Milano, Libreria Cortina.

Mattingly, C. (1998) Healing dramas and clinical plots. The narrative structure of experience. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Mazzeo, A. (2020), Dust Inside: Fighting and Living with Asbestos-Related Disasters in Brazil, Oxfrod: Berghahn Books.

Memmi D. (2003), Faire vivre et laisser mourir. Le Gouvernement contemporain de la naissance et de la mort, La Découverte, Paris.

Minelli M. (2011), Santi, demoni, giocatori. Un'etnografia delle pratiche di salute mentale, Argo, Lecce

Mol A. (2003), The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice, Duke University Press.

Morgan Lynn M., (1993), Community Participation in Health. The Politics of Primary Care in Costa Rica, Cambridge University Press

Nguyen, Vinh-Kim, (2010), The Republic of Therapy: Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa’s Time of AIDS, Duke University Press.

Nichter Mark, 2008, Global Health: Why Cultural Perceptions, Social Representations, and Biopolitics Matter. Tucson, University of Arizona Press.

Ong A. (1987) Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline. Factory Women in Malaysia. New York: State University of New York.

Packard Randall M., 2016, A History of Global Health, Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples, Johns Hopkins University Press.

Petryna A. (2002), Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl, Princeton University Press.

Petryna A., (2009), When Experiments Travel: Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects, Princeton University Press.

Petryna, Lakoff, Kleinman, (2006), Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices, Duke University Press.

Quaranta I., Ricca M. (2012), Malati fuori luogo. Raffaello Cortina, Milano.

Quarta Luigigiovanni, 2019, Resti tra noi. Etnografia di un manicomio criminale, Meltemi

Raffaetà, R., (2011), Identità compromesse. Malattia e cultura: il caso dell'allergia, Milano, Ledizioni.

Raffaetà, R., (2020), Antropologia dei microbi. Come la metagenomica sta riconfigurando l’umano e la salute, Roma: CISU.

Ribeiro Corossacz V. (2004) Il corpo della nazione. Classificazione razziale e gestione sociale della riproduzione in Brasile, Roma: CISU

Richards, Paul, (2016), Ebola. How a people’s science helped end an epidemic. London, Zed Books Ltd.

Rose N., (2008), La politica della vita, Einaudi, Torino.

Scaglioni Marta, Francesco Diodati (a cura di) 2021, Antropologia dell’invecchiamento e della cura. Prospettive globali, Milano, Ledizioni

Scheper-Hughes N. (1993) Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil, University of California Press.

Schirripa G., e Vulpiani P., (a cura di) (2000), L'ambulatorio del guaritore. Forme e pratiche del confronto tra biomedicina e medicine tradizionali in Africa e nelle Americhe. Lecce, Argo.

Schirripa, P., (2005) Le politiche della cura. Terapie, potere e tradizione nel Ghana contemporaneo, Argo, Lecce.

Schirripa, P. (a cura di) (2012) Terapie religiose. Rituali di guarigione, modernità, neoliberismo nel pentecostalismo contemporaneo, Roma, CISU

Schirripa, P., (2015) La vita sociale dei farmaci. Produzione, circolazione, consumo degli oggetti materiali della cura, Lecce: Argo.

Seeberg Jens, Andreas Roepstorff, Lotte Meinert (a cura di), (2020), Biosocial Worlds. Anthropology of health environments beyond determinism, UCL Press

Singer Merrill, (2009), Introduction to Syndemics: A Critical Systems Approach to Public and Community Health, Jossey-Bass

Sunder Rajan, K. (2006), Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life. Duke University Press

Taliani S., e Vacchiano, F., (2006), Altri Corpi. Antropologia ed etnopsicologia della migrazione, Milano, Unicopli.

Ticktin, Miriam, (2011), Casualties of Care. Immigration and the politics of humanitarianism in France. University of California Press.

Urbano Lorenzo, (2023), Scegliere la malattia. Responsabilità e riflessività nella riabilitazione della tossicodipendenza, Lecce, Argo

Wilkinson Iain, Arthur Kleinman, 2016, A Passion for Society. How We Think about Human Suffering. University of California Press.

Young, A. (1995), The Harmony of Illusions. Inventing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Teaching methods

Formal lectures with audio-visual support (when appropriate).

During the course students will be invited to create groups in order to work collectively on specific issues negotiated with the lecturer. Participation in such groups will substitute point 2  of the program.

Assessment methods

Students who attend at least 75% of the lessons are considered to be attending.The final exam will be an oral one (presently still online on MS Teams ), with questions aimed to verify the student's knowledge of the themes discussed during frontal lessons (only for students that participated in classwork) as well as those treated in the program's texts. The questions will deal with general themes, and in his answer the student should show his capacity to go into specific details. Among the elements that concur in the final evaluation there are: detailed knowledge of the book's content, property of language, and especially the capacity of organizing the information showing expositive and critical skills.

Proper language and the ability to critically speak/write about the books' content will lead to a good/excellent final grade.

Acceptable language and the ability to resume the books' content will lead to a sufficient/fair grade.

Insufficient linguistic proficiency and fragmentary knowledge of the books' content will lead to a failure in passing the exam.

Exam sessions are scheduled for the following months: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, September, October.

Information on exams dates:

http://www.unibo.it/Portale/Guida/AlmaEsami.htm

Teaching tools

Students with learning disorders and\or temporary or permanent disabilities: please, contact the office responsible (https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en/for-students ) as soon as possible so that they can propose acceptable adjustments. The request for adaptation must be submitted in advance (15 days before the exam date) to the lecturer, who will assess the appropriateness of the adjustments, taking into account the teaching objectives.

Attending students are required to register at the  mailing list that will be indicated soon.

Office hours

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