Medical Anthropology Journal Club Archives
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.
The journal club schedule for the current semester is available here. Below you can find an archive of past semesters’ schedules
Fall 2012
August 31
Fouts, H. N., Hewlett, B. S., & Lamb, M. E. (2012). A biocultural approach to breastfeeding interactions in central Africa. American Anthropologist, 114(1), 123–136.
doi:10.1111/j.1548-1433.2011.01401.x
Moderator: Alyson Young
September 7
Willen, S. S. (2011). Do “illegal” im/migrants have a right to health? Engaging ethical theory as social practice at a Tel Aviv open clinic. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 25(3), 303-330.
doi:10.1111/j.1548-1387.2011.01163.x
Moderator: Lance Gravlee
September 14
Greenhalgh, S. (2012). Weighty subjects: The biopolitics of the U.S. war on fat. American Ethnologist, 39(3), 471–487.
doi:10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01375.x
Moderator: Sharon Abramowitz
September 21
Weller, S. C., Baer, R. D., Garcia de Alba Garcia, J., & Salcedo Rocha, A. L. (2012). Explanatory models of diabetes in the U.S. and Mexico: The patient-provider gap and cultural competence. Social Science & Medicine, 75(6), 1088–1096.
doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.05.003
Moderator: June Carrington
September 28
No journal club — Carter Conference on Health Disparities in Africa
October 5
Antin, T. M. J., & Hunt, G. (2012). Food choice as a multidimensional experience. A qualitative study with young African American women. Appetite, 58(3), 856–863.
Moderator: Douglas Monroe
October 12
Weaver, L. J., & Hadley, C. (2011). Social pathways in the comorbidity between type 2 diabetes and mental health concerns in a pilot study of urban middle‐and upper‐class Indian women. Ethos, 39(2), 211–225.
doi:10.1111/j.1548-1352.2011.01185.x
Moderator: Sarah Szurek
October 19
Nardoto, G. B., Murrieta, R. S. S., Prates, L. E. G., Adams, C., Garavello, M. E. P.E., Schor, T., De Moraes, A., Rinaldi, F. D., Gragnani, J. G., Moura, E. A.F., Duarte-Neto, P. J. and Martinelli, L. A. (2011). Frozen chicken for wild fish: Nutritional transition in the Brazilian Amazon region determined by carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios in fingernails. American Journal of Human Biology, 23: 642–650.
Moderator: Kimberly Robertson
October 26
Wendland, C. L. (2012). Moral Maps and Medical Imaginaries: Clinical Tourism at Malawi’s College of Medicine. American Anthropologist, 114(1), 108–122.
doi:10.1111/j.1548-1433.2011.01400.x
Moderator: Meredith Marten
November 2
Worthman, C. M., & Brown, R. A. (2012). Sleep budgets in a globalizing world: Biocultural interactions influence sleep sufficiency among Egyptian families. Social Science & Medicine, in press.
doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.03.048
Moderator: Sarah Szurek
November 9
No journal club — Homecoming
November 16
No journal club — American Anthropological Association annual meeting
November 23
No journal club — Thanksgiving holiday
November 30
Goldade, K., & Okuyemi, K. S. (2012). Deservingness to state health services for South–South migrants: A preliminary study of Costa Rican providers’ views. Social Science & Medicine, 74(6), 882–886.
doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.06.045
Moderator: Jacob Ball
December 7
Ohna, I., Kaarhus, R., & Kinabo, J. (2012). No Meal without Ugali? Social Significance of Food and Consumption in a Tanzanian Village. Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, 34(1), 3–14.
doi:10.1111/j.2153-9561.2012.01061.x
Moderator: Alyson Young
Spring 2012
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
Fall 2011
September 2
Kostick, K. M., Schensul, S. L., Singh, R., Pelto, P., & Saggurti, N. (2011). A methodology for building culture and gender norms into intervention: An example from Mumbai, India. Social Science & Medicine, 72(10), 1630–1638. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.03.029
Moderator: Lance Gravlee
September 9
Adams, V., Kaufman, S. R., van Hattum, T., & Moody, S. (2011). Aging disaster: Mortality, vulnerability, and long-term recovery among Katrina survivors. Medical Anthropology, 30(3), 247–270. doi:10.1080/01459740.2011.560777
Moderator: Brian Tyler
September 16
Donovan-Kicken, E., & Caughlin, J. P. (2011). Breast cancer patients’ topic avoidance and psychological distress: The mediating role of coping. Journal of Health Psychology, 16(4), 596–606. doi:10.1177/1359105310383605
Moderator: Yasemin Akdas
September 23
Geile, J. Z. (2008). Homemaker or career woman: Life course factors and racial influences among middle class Americans. Journal of Comparative Family Studies 39(3):392-411
Moderator: Peter Collings
September 30
Adams, E., McCann, L., Armes, J., Richardson, A., Stark, D., Watson, E., & Hubbard, G. (2010). The experiences, needs and concerns of younger women with breast cancer: a meta-ethnography. Psycho-Oncology, 20(8), 851–861. doi:10.1002/pon.1792
Moderator: June Carrington
October 7
Biehl, J., & Moran-Thomas, A. (2009). Symptom: Subjectivities, social ills, technologies. Annual Review of Anthropology, 38(1), 267–288. doi:10.1146/annurev-anthro-091908-164420
Moderator: Sharon Abramowitz
October 14
Pinto, S. (2011). Rational love, relational medicine: Psychiatry and the accumulation of precarious kinship. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 35:376-395
Moderator: Sharon Abramowitz
October 21
Rose, Daniel J. (2010). Captive audience? Strategies for acquiring food in two Detroit neighborhoods. Qualitative Health Research 21(5):642-651. doi:10.1177/1049732310387159
Moderator: Douglas Monroe
October 28
Miller, E. M. (2011). Maternal health and knowledge and infant health outcomes in the Ariaal people of northern Kenya. Social Science & Medicine. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.07.009
Moderator: Dawit Woldu
November 4
No journal club — Homecoming
November 11
No journal club — Veteran’s Day
November 18
No journal club — AAA meetings
November 25
No journal club — Thanksgiving
December 2
Nations, Marilyn K. (2008). Infant death and interpretive violence in Northeast Brazil: taking bereaved Cearense mothers’ narratives to heart. Cadernos de saúde pública. 24(10): 2239–2248.
Moderator: Alyson Young
December 9
Browne, Teri. (2011). The relationship between social networks and pathways to kidney transplant parity: Evidence from black Americans in Chicago. Social Science & Medicine 73(5):663–667.
Moderator: Jessica Jean Casler
Spring 2011
January 14
Hay, M. C. (2009). Anxiety, Remembering, and Agency: Biocultural Insights for Understanding Sasaks’ Responses to Illness. Ethos, 37(1), 1-31.
Moderator: Lance Gravlee
January 21
Dodson, J. L., Hsiao, Y., Kasat-Shors, M., Murray, L., Nguyen, N. K., Richards, A. K. et al. (2009). Formative Research for a Healthy Diet Intervention Among Inner-City Adolescents: The Importance of Family, School and Neighborhood Environment. Ecology of Food and Nutrition, 48(1), 39-58.
Moderator: Douglas Monroe
January 28
Biehl, J., & Locke, P. (2010). Deleuze and the Anthropology of Becoming. Current Anthropology, 51(3), 317-351.
Moderator: Meredith Marten
February 4
Paluck, E. (2010). Is It Better Not to Talk? Group Polarization, Extended Contact, and Perspective Taking in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36(9), 1170-1185.
Moderator: Nikki D’Errico
February 11
Granado, S., Manderson, L., Obrist, B., & Tanner, M. (2011). Appropriating “Malaria”: Local Responses to Malaria Treatment and Prevention in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. Medical Anthropology, 30(1), 102-121.
Moderator: Noelle Sullivan
February 18
Szanton, S. L., Thorpe, R. J., & Whitfield, K. (2010). Life-course financial strain and health in African-Americans. Soc Sci Med, 71(2), 259-265.
Moderator: Marcus Monroe
February 25
Peoples, J. D., Bishop, J., Barrera, B., Lamas, O., Dunlap, J. L., Gonzalez, P. A. et al. (2010). Health, occupational and environmental risks of emancipated migrant farmworker youth. J Health Care Poor Underserved, 21(4), 1215-1226.
Moderator: José Antonio Tovar
March 4
Undurraga, E., Nyberg, C., Eisenberg, D., Magvanjav, O., Reyes-García, V., Huanca, T. et al. (2010). Individual Wealth Rank, Community Wealth Inequality, and Self-Reported Adult Poor Health: A Test of Hypotheses with Panel Data (2002-2006) from Native Amazonians, Bolivia. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 24(4), 522-548.
Dressler, W. W. (2010). Social Inequality and Health: A Commentary. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 24(4), 549-554.
Moderator: Alan Schultz
March 11
No journal club—UF closed for spring break
March 18
Do, Y. K., Carpenter, W. R., Spain, P., et al. (2010). Race, healthcare access and physician trust among prostate cancer patients. Cancer Causes Control, 21(1), 31-40.
Moderator: Yasemin Akdas
March 25
Sweet, E. (2010). “If your shoes are raggedy you get talked about”: Symbolic and material dimensions of adolescent social status and health. Social Science & Medicine, 70(12), 2029-2035.
Moderator: Lance Gravlee
April 1
No journal club—Society for Applied Anthropology Meetings (no fooling)
April 8
Niederdeppe, J., Robert, S. A., & Kindig, D. A. (2011). Qualitative Research About Attributions, Narratives, and Support for Obesity Policy, 2008. Preventing Chronic Disease, 8(2), 1-7.
Moderator: Jessica Jean Casler
April 15
Rosenthal, L., & Lobel, M. (2011). Explaining racial disparities in adverse birth outcomes: Unique sources of stress for Black American women Social Science & Medicine, 72(6), 977-983.
Moderator: June Carrington
Fall 2010
September 3
Coreil, J., Mayard, G., Simpson, K., Lauzardo, M., Zhu, Y., & Weiss, M. G. (2010). Structural forces and the production of TB-related stigma among Haitians in two contexts. Social Science & Medicine, in press.
Moderator: Lance Gravlee
September 10
Champagne, F. (2010). Epigenetic influence of social experiences across the lifespan. Dev Psychobiol, 52(4), 299-311.
Miller, G. (2010). Epigenetics. The seductive allure of behavioral epigenetics. Science, 329(5987), 24-27.
Moderator: Nikki D’Errico
September 17
Fechner, M. (2010). Culture and comorbidity in East and West Berliners. Qualitative Health Research, 20(3), 400-408.
Moderator: Brian Tyler
September 24
Paugh, A., & Izquierdo, C. (2009). Why is this a battle every night?: Negotiating food and eating in American dinnertime interaction. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 19(2), 185-204.
Moderator: Douglas Monroe
October 1
Smart Richman, L., Pek, J., Pascoe, E., & Bauer, D. J. (2010). The effects of perceived discrimination on ambulatory blood pressure and affective responses to interpersonal stress modeled over 24 hours. Health Psychology, 29(4), 403.
Moderator: June Carrington
October 8
Ayala, G. X., Vaz, L., Earp, J. A., Elder, J. P., & Cherrington, A. (2010). Outcome effectiveness of the lay health advisor model among Latinos in the United States: an examination by role. Health Education Research, 25(5), 815-840.
Moderator: José Antonio Tovar
October 15
No journal club—UF closed for Homecoming
October 22
Ford, C. L., & Airhihenbuwa, C. O. (2010). Critical race theory, race equity, and public health: Toward antiracism praxis. Am J Public Health, 100(S1), S30-S35.
Ford, C. L., Daniel, M., Earp, J. A. L., Kaufman, J. S., Golin, C. E., & Miller, W. L. (2009). Perceived everyday racism, residential segregation, and HIV testing among patients at a sexually transmitted disease clinic. Am J Public Health, 99(S1), S137-S143.
Moderator: Lance Gravlee
October 29
Rasmussen, S. J. (2010). Remaking body politics: Dilemmas over female fatness as symbolic capital in two rural Tuareg communities. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 34(4), 615-632.
Moderator: Brittany Osbourne
November 5
Dettenborn, L., Tietze, A., Bruckner, F., & Kirschbaum, C. (2010). Higher cortisol content in hair among long-term unemployed individuals compared to controls. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 1-6.
Moderator: Alan Schultz
November 12
Pham, P., Vinck, P., & Weinstein, H. (2010). Human rights, transitional justice, public health and social reconstruction. Social Science & Medicine, 70(1), 98-105.
Moderator: Brian Tyler
November 19
No journal club—American Anthropological Association Meetings (New Orleans)
November 26
No journal club—UF closed for Thanksgiving
December 3
Kalofonos, I. A. (2010). “All I Eat Is ARVs”: The Paradox of AIDS Treatment Interventions in Central Mozambique. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 24(3), 363-380.
Moderator: Noelle Sullivan
Spring 2010
January 8
Trenholm, J. E., Olsson, P., & Ahlberg, B. M. (2009). Battles on women’s bodies: War, rape and traumatisation in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Global Public Health, in press.
Moderator: Nikki D’Errico
January 15
Shariff-Marco, S., Gee, G. C., Breen, N., Willis, G., Reeve, B. B., Grant, D. et al. (2009). A mixed-methods approach to developing a self-reported racial/ethnic discrimination measure for use in multiethnic health surveys. Ethnicity & Disease, 19(4), 447-453.
Moderator: Douglas Monroe
January 22
Joint session with African American Studies Brownbag Series: “Turn up the HEAT: Building a community academic partnership for health equity,” Lance Gravlee
January 29
Weaver, L. J., & Hadley, C. (2009). Moving beyond hunger and nutrition: A systematic review of the evidence linking food insecurity and mental health in developing countries. Ecology of Food and Nutrition, 48(4), 263-284.
Moderator: Peter Collings
February 5
Pike, I. L., Straight, B., Oesterle, M., Hilton, C., & Lanyasunya, A. (2010). Documenting the health consequences of endemic warfare in three pastoralist communities of northern Kenya: A conceptual framework. Social Science & Medicine, 70(1), 45-52.
Moderator: Alyson Young
February 12
Castel, P. (2009). What’s behind a guideline?: Authority, competition and collaboration in the French oncology sector. Social Studies of Science, 39(5), 743-764.
Moderator: Noelle Sullivan
February 19
Brown, R. A., Hruschka, D. J., & Worthman, C. M. (2009). Cultural models and fertility timing among Cherokee and White youth in Appalachia: Beyond the mode. American Anthropologist, 111(4), 420-431.
Moderator: Lance Gravlee
February 26
Jemmott, J. B., Jemmott, L. S., & Fong, G. T. (2010). Efficacy of a theory-based abstinence-only intervention over 24 months: a randomized controlled trial with young adolescents. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 164(2), 152-159.
Moderator: Douglas Monroe
March 5
Sellstrom, E., & Bremberg, S. (2006). The significance of neighbourhood context to child and adolescent health and well-being: A systematic review of multilevel studies. Scandanavian Journal of Public Health, 34(5), 544-554.
Moderator: Peter Collings and Fredrik Lindencrona
March 12
No journal club—Spring Break
March 19
Kaptchuk, T. J., Shaw, J., Kerr, C. E., Conboy, L. A., Kelley, J. M., Csordas, T. J. et al. (2009). “Maybe I made up the whole thing”: Placebos and patients’ experiences in a randomized controlled trial. Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry, 33(3), 382-411.
Moderator: TBD
March 26
No journal club—Society for Applied Anthropology Meetings (Mérida, Mexico)
April 2
Kubzansky, L. D., & Adler, G. K. (2010). Aldosterone: a forgotten mediator of the relationship between psychological stress and heart disease. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 34(1), 80-86.
Moderator: Amy Non
April 9
Whyte, S. R. (2009). Health identities and subjectivities: The ethnographic challenge. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 23(1), 6-15.
Moderator: Noelle Sullivan
April 16
No journal club—American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
April 23
Grayman, J. H., Good, M.-J. D., & Good, B. J. (2009). Conflict nightmares and trauma in Aceh. Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry, 33(2), 290-312.
Fall 2009
August 28
Fast, D., Shoveller, J., Shannon, K., & Kerr, T. (2009). Safety and danger in downtown Vancouver: Understandings of place among young people entrenched in an urban drug scene. Health & Place, in press.
Moderator: Lance Gravlee
September 4
Maman, S., Cathcart, R., Burkhardt, G., Omba, S., & Behets, F. (2009). The role of religion in HIV-positive women’s disclosure experiences and coping strategies in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Social Science & Medicine, 68(5), 965-970.
Moderator: Nikki D’Errico
September 11
Wendland, C. L. (2008). Research, therapy, and bioethical hegemony: the controversy over perinatal AZT trials in Africa. African Studies Review, 51(3), 1-23.
Moderator: Noelle Sullivan
September 18
Tsai, H., Yu, Y., Zhang, S., Pearson, C., Ortiz, K., Xu, X. et al. (2009). Association of genetic ancestry with preterm delivery and related traits among African American mothers. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 201(1), 94.e1-94.e10.
Moderator: Amy Non
September 25
Conversation with the authors: Suzanne Maman and Frieda Behets
October 2
Hollos, M., & Larsen, U. (2008). Motherhood in sub-Saharan Africa: The social consequences of infertility in an urban population in northern Tanzania. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 10(2), 159-173.
Moderator: Suzanne Dolwick Grieb
October 9
Tucker, J. S., Kennedy, D., Ryan, G., Wenzel, S. L., Golinelli, D., & Zazzali, J. (2009). Homeless women’s personal networks: Implications for understanding risk behavior. Human Organization, 68(2), 129-140.
Moderator: Kathryn Ranhorn
October 16
No journal club—Homecoming
October 23
Zhou, H., Watanabe, C., & Ohtsuka, R. (2007). Impacts of dietary intake and helminth infection on diversity in growth among schoolchildren in rural south China: A four-year longitudinal study. American Journal of Human Biology, 19(1), 96-106.
Moderator: Dawit Woldu
October 30
Hampshire, K. R., Panter-Brick, C., Kilpatrick, K., & Casiday, R. E. (2009). Saving lives, preserving livelihoods: Understanding risk, decision-making and child health in a food crisis. Social Science & Medicine, 68(4), 758-765.
Moderator: Alyson Young
November 6
Snodgrass, J. G., Lacy, M. G., Sharma, S. K., Jhala, Y. S., Advani, M., Bhargava, N. K. et al. (2008). Witch hunts, herbal healing, and discourses of indigenous ecodevelopment in North India: Theory and method in the anthropology of environmentality. American Anthropologist, 110(3), 299-312.
Moderator: Jai Hale-Gallardo
November 13
McGarvey, S. T. (2009). Interdisciplinary translational research in anthropology, nutrition, and public health. Annual Review of Anthropology, 38, 233-249.
Moderator: Tamar Carter
November 20
Gravlee, C. C., Non, A. L., & Mulligan, C. J. (2009). Genetic ancestry, social classification, and racial inequalities in blood pressure in southeastern Puerto Rico. PLoS ONE, 4(9), e6821.
Moderator: Aida Miro
November 27
No journal club—Thanksgiving
December 4
No journal club—American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
Spring 2009
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
Fall 2008
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
No journal club — University closed for homecoming
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
Pickett, K. E. & Wilkinson, R. G. (2008). People like us: ethnic group density effects on health. Ethnicity & Health, 13(4), 321-334.
Moderator: Lance Gravlee
December 12
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
Spring 2008
January 18
Lorway, R. (2006). Dispelling "heterosexual African AIDS" in Namibia: Same-sex sexuality in the township of Katutura. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 8(5), 435-449.
Moderator: Lance Gravlee
January 25
Trnka, S. (2007). Languages of labor: negotiating the real and the relational in Indo-Fijian women’s expressions of physical pain. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 21(4), 388-408.
Moderator: Erica Gibson
February 1
Gersten, O. (2008). Neuroendocrine biomarkers, social relations, and the cumulative costs of stress in Taiwan. Social Science & Medicine, 66(3), 507-519.
McDade, T. W. (2008). Challenges and opportunities for integrative health research in the context of culture: A commentary on Gersten. Social Science & Medicine, 66(3), 520-524.
Moderator: Brian Tyler
February 8
McDade, T. W., Reyes-Garcia, V., Blackinton, P., Tanner, S., Huanca, T., & Leonard, W. R. (2007). Ethnobotanical knowledge is associated with indices of child health in the Bolivian Amazon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(15), 6134-6139.
Moderator: Eric Kightley
February 15
Kirmayer, L. J. & Sartorius, N. (2007). Cultural models and somatic syndromes. Psychosomatic Medicine, 69(9), 832-840.
Moderator: Brian Tyler
February 22
Williams, R. B., et al. (2008). Childhood socioeconomic status and serotonin transporter gene polymorphism enhance cardiovascular reactivity to mental stress. Psychosomatic Medicine, 70(1), 32-39.
Moderator: Amy Non
February 29
Snipes, S., Thompson, B., O’Connor, K., Godina, R., & Ibarra, G. (2007). Anthropological and psychological merge: Design of a stress measure for Mexican farmworkers. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 31(3), 359-388.
Moderator: Lance Gravlee
March 7
Izquierdo, C. & Johnson, A. (2007). Desire, envy and punishment: A Matsigenka emotion schema in illness narratives and folk stories. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 31(4), 419-444.
Moderator: Brian Tyler
March 14
No journal club (Spring Break)
March 21
Pylypa, J. (2007). Healing herbs and dangerous doctors: “Fruit fever” and community conflicts with biomedical care in Northeast Thailand. Medical Anthropological Quarterly, 21(4), 349-368.
Moderator: Eric Kightley
March 28
No journal club (SfAA/SMA Meetings)
April 4
Cheyney, M. J. (2008). Homebirth as systems-challenging praxis: Knowledge, power, and intimacy in the birthplace. Qualitative Health Research, 18(2), 254-267.
Moderator: Melissa Cheyney
April 11
Monnet, E., Ramée, C., Minello, A., Jooste, V., Carel, D., & Di Martino, V. (2008). Socioeconomic context, distance to primary care and detection of hepatitis C: A French population-based study. Social Science & Medicine, 66(5), 1046-1056.
Moderator: Alexandra Fehr
April 18
Kunitz, Stephen J. “Life-Course Observations of Alcohol Use Among Navajo Indians: Natural History Or Careers?” Medical Anthropological Quarterly 20, no. 3 (2006): 279-96.
Moderator: Pete Collings
April 25
Kamat, Vinay R. “"I Thought it Was Only Ordinary Fever!" Cultural Knowledge and the Micropolitics of Therapy Seeking for Childhood Febrile Illness in Tanzania.” Social Science & Medicine 62, no. 12 (2006): 2945-59.
Moderator: Aryeh Jacobsohn
May 2
Lane, S. D., Keefe, R. H., Rubinstein, R., Levandowski, B. A., Webster, N., Cibula, D. A. et al. (2008). Structural violence, urban retail food markets, and low birth weight. Health & Place, 14(3), 415-423.
Moderator: Lance Gravlee
Fall 2007
September 18
Parikh, S. A. (2007). The Political Economy of Marriage and HIV: The ABC Approach, "Safe" Infidelity, and Managing Moral Risk in Uganda. American Journal of Public Health 97:1198-1208.
Moderator: Lance Gravlee
Note: This week only, we will meet in the Diaspora Room, Turlington 1350.
September 25
Quinlan, M. B. & Quinlan, R. J. (2007). Modernization and Medicinal Plant Knowledge in a Caribbean Horticultural Village. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 21:169-192.
Moderator: Eric Kightley
October 2
Wendland, C. L. (2007). The Vanishing Mother: Cesarean Section and "Evidence-Based Obstetrics." Medical Anthropology Quarterly 21:218-233.
Moderator: Kim Cox
October 9
Lonardi, C. (2007). The Passing Dilemma in Socially Invisible Diseases: Narratives on Chronic Headache. Social Science and Medicine, 65(8), 1619-1629.
Moderator: Erica Gibson
October 16
Wood, K., Lambert, H., & Jewkes, R. (2007). Showing Roughness in a Beautiful Way: Talk about Love, Coercion, and Rape in South African Youth Sexual Culture. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 21(3), 277-300.
Moderator: Melissa Lanzone
October 23
Taubes, G. (2007). Do We Really Know What Makes Us Healthy? New York Times Magazine, September 16,p. 52.
Moderator: Amy Non
October 30
Bindon, J., Dressler, W. W., Gilliland, M. J., & Crews, D. E. (2007). A cross-cultural perspective on obesity and health in three groups of women: the Mississippi Choctaw, American Samoans, and African Americans. Collegium Antropologicum, 31(1), 47-54.
Moderator: Erica Gibson
November 6
Liburd, L. C. (2003). Food, Identity, and African-American Women with Type 2 Diabetes: An Anthropological Perspective. Diabetes Spectrum, 16(3), 160-165.
Moderator: Bridgett Rahim-Williams
November 13
Kuzawa, C. W. (2007). Developmental origins of life history: Growth, productivity, and reproduction. American Journal of Human Biology, 19(5), 654-661.
Moderator: Lance Gravlee
November 20
Jones, J. H. (2005). Fetal programming: adaptive life-history tactics or making the best of a bad start? American Journal of Human Biology, 17(1), 22-33.
Moderator: Eric Kightley
November 27
No journal club (AAA Meetings)
December 4
Trnka, S. (2007). Languages of labor: negotiating the real and the relational in Indo-Fijian women’s expressions of physical pain. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 21(4), 388-408.
Moderator: Lance Gravlee
