Required Text |
Baer, Hans, Merrill Singer, and Ida Susser 1997 Medical Anthropology and the World System: A Critical Perspective. Westport, CN: Bergin & Garvey. |
Other Required Reading |
Baer, Hans A. 1996 Bringing Political Ecology into Critical Medical Anthropology: A Challenge to Biocultural Approaches. Medical Anthropology 17:129-141. Bodley, John H. 1996 Chapter 4 "World Hunger and the Evolution of Food Systems," and Chapter 5 "Commercial Factory Food Systems." In Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems. 3rd ed. Pp. 83-140. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company. Ennis-McMillan, Michael Suffering from Water: Social Origins of Bodily Distress in a Mexican Community. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. (forthcoming) Faber, Daniel 1998 The Struggle for Ecological Democracy and Environmental Justice. In The Struggle for Ecological Democracy: Environmental Justice Movements in the United States. Daniel Faber, ed. Pp. 1-26. New York: The Guilford Press. Farmer, Paul and Didi Bertrand 2000 Hypocrises of Development and the Health of the Haitian Poor. In Dying for Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor. Kim, Jim Yong, Joyce V. Millen, Alec Irwin, and John Gershman, eds. Pp. 65-89. Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press and Partners in Health. Goldstein, Eric A. and Mark A. Izeman 1990 Part Four: Drinking Water. In The New York Environment Book: Natural Resources Defense Council. Pp. 131-163. Washington DC: Island Press. Helman, Cecil 1994 Medical Anthropology and Global Health. In: Culture, Health and Illness: An Introduction for Health Professionals. 3rd edition. Pp. 338-383. Bristol: John Wright & Sons Ltd. Hitchcock, Robert K. 1994 Human Rights and the Environment in Southern Africa: San Experiences. In Who Pays the Price? The Sociocultural Context of Environmental Crisis. Barbara Rose Johnston, ed. Washington DC: Island Press and Society for Applied Anthropology, Committee on Human Rights and the Environment. Johnston, Barbara Rose 1994 Chapter 1 "Introduction," Chapter 2 "Environmental Degradation and Human Rights Abuse," Chapter 20 "The Abuse of Human Environmental Rights: Experience and Response," and Chapter 21 "Concluding Remarks…" In Who Pays the Price? The Sociocultural Context of Environmental Crisis. Barbara Rose Johnston, ed. Pp. 3-15, 219-235. Washington DC: Island Press and Society for Applied Anthropology, Committee on Human Rights and the Environment. Lutes, Mark W. 1998 Global Climatic Change. In Political Ecology: Global and Local. Roger Keil, David V. J. Bell, Peter Penz and Leesa Fawcett, eds. Pp. 157-175. New York: Routledge. Masterson-Allen, Susan and Phil Brown 1990 "Public Reaction to Toxic Waste Contamination: Analysis of a Social Movement". International Journal of Health Services 20(3):485-500. Miller, Vernice, Moya Hallstein and Susan Quass 1996 Feminist Politics and Environmental Justice: Women's Community Activism in West Harlem, New York. In Feminist Political Ecology: Global Issues and Local Experiences. Dianne Rocheleau, Barbara Thomas-Slayter, and Esther Wangari, eds. Pp. 62-85. New York: Routledge. Nash, June C. 1989 From Tank Town to High Tech: The Clash of Community and Industrial Cycles. Albany: State University of New York Press. Nash, June C. and Max Kirsch 1986 Polychlorinated Biphenyls in the Electrical Machinery Industry: An Ethnological Study of Community Action and Corporate Responsibility. Social Science & Medicine 2(1):131-138. 1988 The Discourse of Science: Corporation and Community in the Construction of Consensus. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 2(2):158-171. Novotny, Patrick 1998 Popular Epidemiology and the Struggle for Community Health in the Environmental Justice Movement. In The Struggle for Ecological Democracy: Environmental Justice Movements in the United States. Daniel Faber, ed. Pp. 137-158. New York: The Guilford Press. Rocheleau, Dianne, Barbara Thomas-Slayter, and Esther Wangari 1996 Gender and Environment: A Feminist Political Ecology Perspective. In Feminist Political Ecology: Global Issues and Local Experiences. Dianne Rocheleau, Barbara Thomas-Slayter, and Esther Wangari, eds. Pp. 3-23. New York: Routledge. Seager, Joni 1996 "Hysterical Housewives" and Other Mad Women: Grassroots Environmental Organizing in the United States. In Feminist Political Ecology: Global Issues and Local Experiences. Dianne Rocheleau, Barbara Thomas-Slayter, and Esther Wangari, eds. Pp. 271-283. New York: Routledge. Skidmore Expository Writing Committee 1999 The Skidmore Guide to Writing. Saratoga Springs, NY: Skidmore College. Sponsel, Leslie E. 1997 The Master Thief: Gold Mining and Mercury Contamination in the Amazon. In Life and Death Matters: Human Rights and the Environment at the end of the Millennium. B. R. Johnston, ed. Pp.99-127. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press. Susser, Ida 1985 Union Carbide and the Community Surrounding it: The Case of a Community in Puerto Rico. International Journal of Health Services 15(4):561-583. Whiteford, Linda M. 1997 The Ethnoecology of Dengue Fever. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 11(2):202-223. Wisner, Ben 1997 Environmental Justice, Health, and Safety in Urban South Africa. In Life and Death Matters: Human Rights and the Environment at the end of the Millennium. B. R. Johnston, ed. Pp. 265-285. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press. |
Recommended reading (on reserve in library) |
Brown, Peter J., Marcia C. Inhorn, and Daniel J. Smith 1996 Disease, Ecology, and Human Behavior. In: Medical Anthropology: Contemporary Theory and Method. Sargent and Johnson, eds. Revised edition. Westport, CN: Praeger. Chivian, Eric, McCally, Michael, Hu, Howard and Haines, Andrew 1993 Critical Condition: Human Health and the Environment. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press / Physicians for Social Responsibility. Helman, Cecil 1994 Culture, Health and Illness: An Introduction for Health Professionals. 3rd edition. Bristol: John Wright & Sons Ltd. Joralemon, Donald 1999 Exploring Medical Anthropology. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. McElroy, Ann, and Patricia Townsend 1996 Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective. 3rd Edition. Westview Press. Sargent, Carolyn F. and Thomas M. Johnson, eds. 1996 Medical Anthropology: Contemporary Theory and Method. Revised edition. Westport, CN: Praeger. |
Recommended Journals |
American Anthropologist Human Ecology American Ethnologist Human Organization Annual Review of Anthropology International Journal of Health Services
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Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry Journal of Political Ecology Cultural Survival Quarterly Medical Anthropology Ethos Medical Anthropology Quarterly Social Science & Medicine |