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

 

Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry

Journal of Political Ecology

Cultural Survival Quarterly

Medical Anthropology

Ethos

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Social Science & Medicine