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
