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Inside Looking Out, Part Three
Pamela Runestad, a PhD candidate in medical anthropology at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, continues her account from Japan. Here is an excerpt: …[O]ne of my interviewees in Osaka told me on Friday:...
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“Aliceheimer’s”– one family’s journey through Alzheimer’s
AAA member, Dana Walrath is a medical anthropologist that tilts perspective on how to heal. UVM News reporter, Lee Ann Cox describes Walrath’s work: As a professor and anthropologist in UVM’s College...
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Teaching Medical Anthropology
For faculty teaching medical anthropology courses this fall, the following materials may be helpful. I collected these lists with the assistance of Andrea Sankar, co-editor of Medical Anthropology...
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Touch in the Classroom: Should Schools Teach Students to Give Each Other...
Written by Elisa (EJ) Sobo Every semester, I teach a college course exploring the interrelationships between human culture and biology. Feedback loops connecting culturally-patterned behavior and body...
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Dr. Nancy Scheper-Hughes Named First AAA Public Policy Award Winner
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is pleased to announce that its Committee on Public Policy has selected medical anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes as the first recipient of the new...
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AAA Webinar Wednesday Returns with Lenore Manderson September 2nd at 2 PM...
Medical Anthropology in the 21st Century with Lenore Manderson Lenore will be our first speaker in the AAA Webinar Series this fall! The AAA’s Webinar Wednesday is back for the Fall Semester. Medical...
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Bringing art to breast cancer care: 3D nipple tattooing
Few people realize how long and complex breast cancer treatment is. The Komen Foundation and Avon rarely highlight post-surgery debacles in their fundraising literature, and the visceral reality of...
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Teaching AAA 2016: Teaching evidence in medicine
This is the fourth post in our blog series designed to help you link your teaching with the 2016 Annual Meeting theme, Evidence, Accident, Discovery. The series offers relevant teaching resources to...
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