Lecturer

Johan Wedel

Slides

(will be uploaded after the lecture)

Preparation

Please read the following course literature:

1. Castro, Arachu & Farmer, Paul. 2005. “Understanding and Addressing AIDS-Related Stigma: From Anthropological Theory to Clinical Practice in Haiti.” American Journal of Public Health 95(1): 53-59.

2. Bernstein, A and Razon, Na'amah. 2019. ”Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Health Policy.” Human Organization. 78(1):75-84.

3. Singer, Merrill, Bulled, Nicola, Ostrich, Bayla & Mendenhall, Emily. 2017. “Syndemics and the Biosocial Conception of Health”. The Lancet 389:941-950.

Room: 204

The lecture discusses culture, society, health policy and the syndemics model in relation to global health challenges.

Additional reading (not mandatory):

Castañeda, H. 2010. Im/migration and Health: Conceptual, Methodological, and Theoretical Propositions for Applied Anthropology. NAPA Bulletin 34(1): 6-27.

Eversole, R. 2020. Can Anthropologists Talk Back? :: Society for Applied Anthropology

Farmer, P. 2019. To Repair the World. Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. (Pages 233-247) (e-book).

Culture, syndemics and health policy (JW).pdf