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.

Current Schedule

For Spring 2009, the journal club meets every Friday, 11:45 a.m.-12:35 p.m. (fifth period). We meet in the Department of Anthropology Conference Room, Turlington 1208.

January 9

Dressler, W. W. (2007). Meaning and structure in research in medical anthropology. Anthropology in Action, 14(3), 30-43.

Moderator: Lance Gravlee

January 16

Hadley, C., Tegegn, A., Tessema, F., Cowan, J., Asefa, M., & Galea, S. (2008). Food insecurity, stressful life events and symptoms of anxiety and depression in East Africa: evidence from the Gilgel Gibe Growth and Development Study. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 62(11), 980-986.

Moderator: Alyson Young

January 23

Becares, L., Nazroo, J., & Stafford, M. (2009). The buffering effects of ethnic density on experienced racism and health. Health & Place. In press.

Moderator: Douglas Monroe

January 30

Keenan, S. (2008). Listening to pregnancy dreams: Towards a Jungian Inner Map of pregnancy, lactation, weaning and post-weaning. Women and Birth, 21(3), 127-132.

Moderator: Nikki D’Errico

February 6

Panter-Brick, C., Eggerman, M., Mojadidi, A., & Mcdade, T. W. (2008). Social stressors, mental health, and physiological stress in an urban elite of young Afghans in Kabul. American Journal of Human Biology, 20, 627-641.

Moderator: Brian Tyler

February 13

Menon, R., Velez, D., Morgan, N., Lombardi, S., Fortunato, S., & Williams, S. (2008). Genetic regulation of amniotic fluid TNF-alpha and soluble TNF receptor concentrations affected by race and preterm birth. Human Genetics, 124(3), 243-253.

Moderator: Amy Non

February 20

Kuzawa, C. W., & Sweet, E. (2009). Epigenetics and the embodiment of race: Developmental origins of US racial disparities in cardiovascular health. American Journal of Human Biology, 21(1), 2-15.

Jasienska, G. (2009). Low birth weight of contemporary African Americans: An intergenerational effect of slavery? American Journal of Human Biology, 21(1), 16-24.

Moderator: Nikki D’Errico

February 27

Tawfik, L., & Watkins, S. C. (2007). Sex in Geneva, sex in Lilongwe, and sex in Balaka. Social Science & Medicine, 64(5), 1090-1101.

Moderator: Meredith Marten

March 6

Krieger, N., Chen, J. T., Waterman, P. D., Hartman, C., Stoddard, A. M., Quinn, M. et al. (2008). The inverse hazard law: Blood pressure, sexual harassment, racial discrimination, workplace abuse and occupational exposures in US low-income black, white and Latino workers. Social Science & Medicine, 67(12), 1970-1981.

Moderator: Lance Gravlee

March 13

No journal club—Spring Break

March 20

No journal club—Society for Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe, NM

March 27

Crate, S. A. (2008). Gone the bull of winter? Grappling with the cultural implications of and anthropology’s role(s) in global climate change. Current Anthropology, 49(4), 569-595.

Moderator: Peter Collings

April 3

Kohrt, B. A., & Harper, I. (2008). Navigating diagnoses: Understanding mind–body relations, mental health, and stigma in Nepal. Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry, 32(4), 462-491.

Moderator: Brian Tyler

April 10

Briggs, C. L., & Mantini-Briggs, C. (2009). Confronting health disparities: Latin American social medicine in Venezuela. American Journal of Public Health, 99(3), 549.

Moderator: Alan Schultz

April 17

Wutich, A., & Ragsdale, K. (2008). Water insecurity and emotional distress: Coping with supply, access, and seasonal variability of water in a Bolivian squatter settlement. Social Science & Medicine, 67(12), 2116-2125.

Moderator: Lance Gravlee

April 24

Pescosolido, B. A., Perry, B. L., Long, J. S., Martin, J. K., Nurnberger Jr., J., & Hesselbrock, V. (2008). Under the influence of genetics: How transdisciplinarity leads us to rethink social pathways to illness. American Journal of Sociology, 114(S1), S171-S201.

Moderator: Amy Non

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