Tuesday, May 2: Social and structural determinants of health

NB: This session rests on the fact that you have already read Paul Farmer’s 2004 article, “An Anthropology of Structural Violence” in ANTH 566. Please review your readings notes on it.

Nguyen, Vinh-Kim and Karine Peschard. 2003. “Anthropology, Inequality, and Disease: A Review.” Annual Review of Anthropology 32, 447–474.
Metzl, Jonathan, Helena Hansen. 2014. “Structural Competency: Theorizing a New Medical Engagement with Stigma and Inequality.” Social Science & Medicine 103, 126–133.
Bourgois, Philippe, Seth M. Holmes, Kim Sue, and James Quesada. 2017. “Structural vulnerability: Operationalizing the concept to address health disparities in clinical care.” Academic Medicine 92(3), 299–307.

Thursday, May 4: Thursday, Micro/macro politics of racism

Authors' profiles

Vinh-Kim Nguyen + interview: From emergency room to classroom, the double life of Dr. Vinh-Kim Nguyen.

Karine Peschard

Jonathan Metzl's website

Leith Mullings passed away a couple of years ago, after retiring in 2016. Her department still holds a space for her in memoriam.

Vanessa Agard-Jones

Dána-Ain Davis

Cheyenne Varner

LeConté J. Dill

Additional References

Kaushik Sunder Rajan's work is particularly pertinent to think about the commodification of bodies and health. See his books: Biocapital: The Constitution of PostgenomicLife (2006) and Pharmocracy: value, politics & knowledge in global biomedicine (2017).

Camp, Stephanie. M. H. 2005. Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South. The University of North Carolina Press.

Johnson, Jessica. Marie. 2020. Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World. University of Pennsylvania Press.