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 Fall 2008, the journal club meets every Friday, 11:45 a.m.-12:35 p.m. (fifth period). Unless otherwise noted, we meet in the Diaspora Room, Turlington 1350.
August 29
Warner, F. R. (2007). Social Support and Distress among Q’eqchi’ Refugee Women in Maya Tecun, Mexico. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 21(2), 193-217.
Moderator: Brian Tyler
September 5
Sorensen, M. V., Snodgrass, J. J., Leonard, W. R., Mcdade, T. W., Tarskaya, L. A., Ivanov, K. I. et al. (2008). Lifestyle incongruity, stress and immune function in indigenous Siberians: The health impacts of rapid social and economic change. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, in press.
Moderator: Lance Gravlee
September 12
Thomas, Felicity. 2008. Indigenous narratives of HIV/AIDS: Morality and blame in a time of change. Medical Anthropology 27 (3): 227-56.
Moderator: Alan Schultz
September 19
Nyamanga, P., C. Suda, and J. Aagaard-Hansen. 2006. Similarities between human and livestock illnesses among the Luo in Western Kenya. Anthropology & Medicine 13 (1): 13-24.
Mathias, E. 2007. Ethnoveterinary medicine in the era of evidence-based medicine: Mumbo-jumbo, or a valuable resource? The Veterinary Journal 173 (2): 241-42.
Moderator: Alyson Young
September 26
Goldberg, T. L., Gillespie, T. R., Rwego, I. B., & Estoff, E. L. (2008). Forest fragmentation as cause of bacterial transmission among nonhuman primates, humans, and livestock, Uganda. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 14(9), 1375-1382.
Moderator: Eric Kightley
October 3
Mayhew, M., Hansen, P. M., Peters, D. H., Edward, A., Singh, L. P., Dwivedi, V. et al. (2008). Determinants of skilled birth attendant utilization in Afghanistan: A cross-sectional study. American Journal of Public Health, 98(10), 1849.
Moderator: Nikki D’Errico
October 10
Jones, K. E., Patel, N. G., Levy, M. A., Storeygard, A., Balk, D., Gittleman, J. L. et al. (2008). Global trends in emerging infectious diseases. Nature, 451(7181), 990-993.
Moderator: Eric Kightley
October 17
Béhague, D. P., Gonçalves, H., & Victora, C. G. (2008). Anthropology and epidemiology: learning epistemological lessons through a collaborative venture. Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, 13(6), 1701-1710.
Moderator: Douglas Monroe
October 24
Phinney, H. (2008). "Rice is essential but tiresome; you should get some noodles": Doi moi and the political economy of men’s extramarital sexual relations and marital HIV risk in Hanoi, Vietnam. American Journal of Public Health, 98(4), 650-660.
Mills, S. (2008). The political economy of men’s HIV risk in Vietnam and intervention choices. American Journal of Public Health, 98(10), 1734-1735.
Moderator: Alan Schultz
October 31
Foley, E. E. (2008). Neoliberal reform and health dilemmas. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 22(3), 257-273.
Moderator: Alyson Young
November 7
Seeley, J., Biraro, S., Shafer, L. A., Nasirumbi, P., Foster, S., Whitworth, J. et al. (2008). Using in-depth qualitative data to enhance our understanding of quantitative results regarding the impact of HIV and AIDS on households in rural Uganda. Social Science & Medicine, 67(9), 1434-1446.
Moderator: Meredith Marten
November 14
Trostle, J. A., Hubbard, A., Scott, J., Cevallos, W., Bates, S. J., & Eisenberg, J. N. S. (2008). Raising the level of analysis of food-borne outbreaks: Food-sharing networks in rural coastal Ecuador. Epidemiology, 19(3), 384-390.
Moderator: Peter Collings
November 21
No journal club (AAA meetings, San Francisco)
November 28
No journal club (Thanksgiving)
December 5
Dressler, W. W. (2008). Meaning and structure in research in medical anthropology. Anthropology in Action, 14(3), 30-43.
Moderator: Lance Gravlee
December 12
Pickett, K. E. & Wilkinson, R. G. (2008). People like us: ethnic group density effects on health. Ethnicity & Health, 13(4), 321-334.
Moderator: TBD
