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 Reading: Please Read This Short Article  HERE " We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make this service better for you?' As soon as you start asking, you get a flood of answers."  Paul Farmer “ Acting like a sponge, illness soaks up personal and social significance from the world of the sick person.”  Arthur Kleinman "The poorest parts of the world are by and large places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because the doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame."  Paul Farmer "Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of healthcare regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care."  Paul Farmer Medical Anthropology:  The study of human disease in a  cross-cultural, historical...

  ANTH 2136: World Perspectives on Health An Exploration of Medical Anthropology Fall 2021 10:30-12:20 M/W AC Room 216 Professor Laurie Greene Office Hours: m/w 12:30-1:30                        or  any day by appointment Office: AC224g or on Zoom Cell Phone: text in emergency (609) 214-6596 Email:  laurie.greene@stockton.edu  ( please put "Anth 2136" in subject line ) This semester we will be exploring the burgeoning field of medical anthropology. Medical anthropology is an applied discipline which starts with two insights;  first, that  cultural premises which are often unconscious or difficult to recognize shape the way that we understand health and healing practices  (illness and health are an “imposition of human meanings on naturally occurring processes”),  and second, that  disease patterns, social norms, and socio-economic arrangements are intrinsically related  (social ...