Medical Anthropology Journal Club
All interested faculty and graduate students are invited to participate in the medical anthropology journal club. The purpose is to create a forum for discussing and critically evaluating recent literature related to medical anthropology. Typically, one volunteer will select an article and lead a discussion at each meeting.
Articles will be available in PDF form on this website at least one week in advance. If you are interested in participating, please contact me to request a password for access to the articles.
Course credit now available: As of Fall 2009, students have the option of registering for journal club as a one-credit course (ANG 6905). You are not required to register for credit to attend; we still welcome any and all students and faculty who want to participate. The new course option simply allows you to receive credit toward your degree for the work we do in journal club.
Current Schedule
For Spring 2012, unless noted otherwise, the journal club meets every Friday, 11:45 a.m. – 12:35 p.m. (Period 5) in the Medical Anthropology Lab, Turlington B103. Please check the blog for updates about the weekly schedule. You can also subscribe to be receive notices about journal club by email. You could also request to join the Med Anthro @ UF group on Facebook.
January 13
Horton, S., & Barker, J. C. (2010). Stigmatized biologies: Examining the cumulative effects of oral health disparities for Mexican American farmworker children. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 24(2), 199–219.
Moderator: Lance Gravlee
January 20
Honkasalo, Marja-Liisa (2009). Grips and ties: Agency, uncertainty and the problem of suffering. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 23(1), 51-69. doi:10.1111/j.1548-1387.2009.01037.x
Moderator: Brian Tyler
January 27
No journal club — special discussion with João Biehl about his book, Vita.
February 3
Moffat, Tina (2010). The ‘childhood obesity epidemic’: Health crisis or social construction? Medical Anthropology Quarterly 24(1):1-21.
Moderator: Kimberly Robertson
February 10
James, A., Daley, C. B., & Greiner, K. A. (2011). “Cutting” on cancer: Attitudes about cancer spread and surgery among primary care patients in the USA. Social Science and Medicine, 73(11): 1669–1673
Moderator: June Carrington
February 17
Brewis, Alexandra A., Amber Wutich, Ashlan Falletta-Cowden, & Isa Rodriguez-Soto (2011). Body norms and fat stigma in global perspective. Current Anthropology, 52(2):269-276. doi:10.1086/659309
Moderator: Brittany Osbourne
February 24
Muela Ribera, Joan and Susanna Hausmann-Muela (2011). The straw that breaks the camel’s back: Redirecting health-seeking behavior studies on malaria and vulnerability. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 25(1):103-121. doi:10.1111/j.1548-1387.2010.01139.x
Moderator: Jessica Jean Casler
March 2
Nanama, Siméon and Edward A. Frongillo (2012). Altered social cohesion and adverse psychological experiences with chronic food insecurity in the non-market economy and complex households of Burkina Faso. Social Science & Medicine 74(3):444-51. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.11.009
Moderator: Doug Monroe
March 9 — Spring Break
No journal club
March 16
Fox, R., & Smith, G. (2011). Sinner Ladies and the gospel of good taste: geographies of food, class and care. Health & Place, 17(2), 403–412. doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2010.07.006
Moderator: Kimberly Robertson
March 23
Yates-Doerr, Emily (2012). The Weight of the Self: Care and Compassion in Guatemalan Dietary Choices. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 26(1), 136–158. doi:10.1111/j.1548-1387.2011.01169.x
Moderator: Sarah Szurek
March 30
No journal club—Society for Applied Anthropology meetings
April 6
Thesis Workshop: Substance Abuse in Swaziland: An Example of a Resource-Poor Country
Moderator: Tamra Rich
April 13
Csordas, Thomas, J., Dole, C., Tran, A., Strickland, M., & Storck, M. G. (2010). Ways of Asking, Ways of Telling: A Methodological Comparison of Ethnographic and Research Diagnostic Interviews, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 34(1), 29–55. doi:10.1007/s11013-009-9160-4
Moderator: Lance Gravlee
April 20
Hadley, Craig, Fasil Tessema, and Ayalew T Muluneh (2012). Household Food Insecurity and Caregiver Distress: Equal Threats to Child Nutritional Status? American Journal of Human Biology 24(2):149-157. doi:10.1002/ajhb.22200
Moderator: Alyson Young
