ANTH 306: Medical Anthropology
Handouts from class and some links to videos and other good stuff*

• What is medical anthropology? (PPT)

• Ecological concepts

• Ecology of Health and Disease (PPT)

• Evolution and human adaptation (PPT)

• Information for Quiz 1

• Demographics & disease (PPT)

• Population pyramids

• Demographic and epidemiological transitions

• Epidemiologic Transition

• Video/audio clips used:  

  • Dr. Mark Nichter, Regents' Professor and Professor of Anthropology, Public Health, Family Medicine, University of Arizona

  • Pathways to Health

  • Dr. Paul Farmer: Kolokotrones University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard University

  • 10 Questions for Paul Farmer (Video clip)

  • Paul Farmer: I believe in health care as a human right  (Video clip)

  • TED Video:Nina Jablonski on Human Skin Color

  • Evolving Altitude Aptitude (Video clip)

  • Hypoxia and adaptation to altitude (Video clip)

  • Fresh Air at 20: Anthropologist Robert Murphy (audio clip)

  • The Water Carriers

  • TED Video: Hans Rosling on Global Population Growth

  • Unnatural Causes

    • Diabetes Among Native Americans: Genes or Environment? (Video clip)

    • The Relationship Between Diabetes and water rights for Native Americans in Arizona (Video clip)

    • Cultural renewal as a key to better health. (Video clip)

  • Birth of a Surgeon (video from PBS Series Wideangle)

  • The Ninth Month (PRI's The World)

  • Dead Women Walking (fistulas in Tanzania)

  • We are Also Women (young women with intellectual disabilities)

  • All Human Zoo (dwarf theme park in China)

  • In the Eye of the beholder: The Diane DeVries Story

• Gender and Women's Health Issues (PPT)

• Culture & Disability (PPT)

• Midterm Study Guide (Click here for PDF version)

• Stress, Illness and Healing (PPT)

  • Culture-Bound Syndromes

  • Introduction to culture bound syndromes

  • Rare and Unusual Psychiatric Syndromes

  • Rare and Unusual Psychiatric Syndromes Part 2:
    Culture-Bound Conditions

  • Dr. Esther Sternberg: Stress and the Balance Within

  • The Mind-Body Interaction in Disease

• Culture change & health

• Development & its costs

  • The Price of Progress

• AIDS, Poverty and Haiti

  • Understanding and Addressing AIDS related stigma

• The Political Economy of Health

  • Social Inequalities and Emerging Infectious Diseases

  • Global Disparities in Health and Human Rights: A Critical Commentary

  • The Political Ecology of Disease as One New Focus for Medical Geography

• Final exam review sheet (coming later)

*please note that these same items can be found on the D2L site and may be easier to keep track of because they're arranged by modules.

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