Unit name | Anthropology and Global Health |
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Unit code | SSCM30003 |
Credit points | 10 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Professor. Lambert |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Bristol Medical School |
Faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences |
This unit aims to develop knowledge and understanding of the roles of culture, social structure and political economy in shaping global health problems and interventions by introducing students to anthropological approaches to global health and bioethics.
This unit will be taught in the form of workshops using a variety of teaching methods including lectures, presentations, small group work, debates and seminars.
Formative assessment: Group presentations in week 5 based on allotted readings
Summative assessment: 2500-3000 word individual essay
General background/preparatory reading
Biehl J, Petryna A. (2013). When people come first: Critical studies in global health. Princeton University Press. [Electronic and hard copies in UoB library]
Farmer P, Kim JY, Kleinman A, Basilico M. (2013). Reimagining global health: An introduction. Berkeley etc: University of California Press. [in UoB library]
Good, B et al (eds.). (2010). A reader in medical anthropology: Theoretical trajectories, emergent realities. Malden etc.: Wiley-Blackwell.
Hahn R, Inhorn M (eds.). (2009). Anthropology in public health: Bridging differences in culture and society [2nd ed.] New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press. [in UoB library]
Inhorn M, Brown, P. (1997). The anthropology of infectious disease: International health perspectives. Amsterdam: Gordon & Breach. [in UoB library]
Lambert H. (2012). ‘New medical anthropology’, in The Sage handbook of social anthropology [Vol 2]. Fardon R. et al (eds), pp.352-364. Los Angeles etc: Sage. [e-version in UoB library]
Lock M, Nguyen V-K. (2011). An Anthropology of Biomedicine. Wiley-Blackwell
Nichter M. (2008). Global Health: why cultural perceptions, social representations and biopolitics matter. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
Pool R, Geissler W. (2005). Medical anthropology. Open University Press [Understanding Public Health series] [copy available in UoB library]