May 2 & 4 Readings, authors' info & other sources

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 Links to an external site..” Annual Review of Anthropology 32, 447–474.
• Metzl, Jonathan, Helena Hansen. 2014. “Structural Competency: Theorizing a New Medical Engagement with Stigma and Inequality Links to an external site..” 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 Links to an external site..” Academic Medicine 92(3), 299–307.

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

• Mullings, Leith. 2008. “Resistance and Resilience: The Sojourner Syndrome and the Social Context of Reproduction in Central Harlem Links to an external site..” Transforming Anthropology 13: 79–91.
• Agard-Jones, Vanessa. 2013. “Bodies in the System Links to an external site..” Small Axe, 42(11), 182–192.
• Davis, Dána‐Ain, Cheyenne Varner, and LeConté J. Dill. 2021. “A Birth Story: How cross-disciplinary collaboration illuminates the burdens of racism during birth Links to an external site..” Anthropology News website, August 27, 2021.

 

Authors' profiles

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

Karine Peschard Links to an external site.

Jonathan Metzl's website Links to an external site.

Henela Hansen Links to an external site.

Philippe Bourgois Links to an external site.

Seth Holmes Links to an external site.

Kim Sue Links to an external site.

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

Vanessa Agard-Jones Links to an external site.

Dána-Ain Davis Links to an external site.

Cheyenne Varner Links to an external site.

LeConté J. Dill Links to an external site.

 

 

Additional References

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

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

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