Brad R. Huber's

Anthropology 340: Medical Anthropology

• Fall 2007 Syllabus
• First Group of Oral Presentations
• Potential Essay Questions for Exam 1
• Second Group of Oral Presentations
• Potential Essay Questions for Exam 2
• WebCT

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340 Homework Questions

• Homework Questions for McElroy and Townsend, Chapters 1-6
• Homework Questions for Evolutionary Medicine Readings
• Homework Questions for Medical Ethnobiology Readings

Paper Guidelines and Samples

• List of Potential Topics for Oral Presentations and Research Papers
• American Anthropological Association Style Guide
• Examples of how to format citations and references in American Anthropological Association Style
• Examples of how headings and subheadings are used, and how to label tables and figures in American Anthropological Association Style
• Sample Research Paper #1
• Sample Research Paper #2

Handouts

• Theoretical Approaches to Mesoamerican Medical Practitioners
• Malaria-Sickle Cell Worksheet
• Plasmodium Life Cycle: Drawing
• Plasmodium Life Cycle (Power Point Slide)
• Figure of Plasmodium Life Cycle

Web Pages Related to Course Lectures, Discussions, etc.

Introduction

• Silphium: Ancient Wonder Drug? by John Tatman
• Queen Anne's Lace
• Flowers and Fruits: Two Thousand Years of Menstrual Regulation
• Culture-Bound Syndromes University of Minnesota Duluth

Interdisciplinary Research in Health Problems (Multi-disciplinary Collaboration; Biological, Clinical, Epidemiological, and Cultural data; Theory)

• Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in the US
  • Table 2: Distributions of Adult U.S. AIDS Cases by Transmission Exposure Group over Time
• Global Summary of HIV and AIDS Maps
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS Resources
• Parasitic Diseases : A Site from the CDC

Genes, Culture, and Adaptation (Human Diversity; Adaptation and Biological Evolution; Adaptive and Maladaptive Cultural Patterns)

• Sickle Cell Anemia (Medline Plus)
• The History of Vaccination (WHO Document)
• Sickle Hemoglobin (Hb S) Allele and Sickle Cell Disease: A HuGE Review
• Higher Resistance to Plasmodium falciparum Infection in Patients with Homozygous Sickle Cell Disease in Western Kenya
• Novel Therapeutic Approaches in Sickle Cell Disease
• Manipulative Malaria Parasite Makes You More Attractive (to Mosquitoes)

Patterns of Disease and Death (Life and Death among Foragers and People living in Pre-Industrial Cities and Industrial Societies)

• Demography and Childcare in Preindustrial Cities by Barry S. Hewlett
• Yaws (Photos at bottom of the page)
• Parasites and Parasitology
• The Bhopal Disaster of 1984 20 Years After
• Experts Find Reduced Effects of Chernobyl 9/6/05 New York Times
• The Waring Historical Library of the MUSC "Dedicated to the History of the Health Sciences"

Ecology and Economics of Nutrition (Nutrition among Foragers, Farmers, and People in Industrial Societies)

• C.A.R.E.
• Freedom From Hunger-Mali
• Genetically Modified Food and Organisms
• KDrink in Peru
• The Paradoxical Nature of Hunter-Gatherer Diets
• Sight Savers: Mali

Reproduction (Fertility; Birth Control; Midwives; and Evolutionary Perspectives of Pregnancy and Childbirth

• American College of Nurse-Midwives
• Katherine Dettwyler's Thoughts on Breast Feeding
• Pelvic Anatomy
• Midwives Alliance of North America---Types of Midwives

Evolutionary Medicine (Part 1)

• Presentation of Ewald's Virulence
• Presentation of Coe Steadman's Breast Cancer Article
• MRSA in Healthcare Settings
• Female Breast Anatomy with Lymph Nodes
• Types of Breast Lobules

Evolutionary Medicine (Part 2)

• Presentation of Huffman's Self-Medicative Behavior
• Presentation of Eaton and Eaton's Evolution, Diet, and Health
• Presentation of Eaton and Eaton's Human Physical Activity
• Presentation of Watson and Andrew' Evolutionary Adaptionist Analysis of Depression

Medical Ethnobotany, Ethnomedicine, and Biomedicine

• Amazon Conservation Team
• The Chemoreception Website
• Links to Chemoreception Sites of Interest

Medical Anthropology Web Pages

• Medical Anthropology Web (Lots of Links)
• Society for Medical Anthropology
• Sections within the Society of Medical Anthropology:
  • Currently, the SMA sponsors fourteen Special Interest Groups:
  • Medical Anthropology Student Association
  • AIDS and Anthropology Research Group
  • Alcohol, Drug, and Tobacco Study Group
  • Clinically Applied Medical Anthropology
  • Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) and Integrative Medicine (IM) Group
  • Council on Anthropology and Reproduction
  • Council on Infant and Child Health & Welfare
  • Council on Nursing and Anthropology
  • Critical Anthropology of Global Health Study Group
  • Disability Research Interest Group
  • Global Health and Emerging Diseases Study Group
  • Pharmaceutical Studies Group
• Transcultural Nursing Society

Medical Reference Tools

• Alternative Health News Online Comprehensive Site on "Alternative Medicine"
• BioTech's Science Resources
• Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Dictionary: BioTech's Life Science Dictionary
• Medical Encyclopedia (Medline Plus)
• The Merck Manual of Medical Information
• United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS Resources
• World Health Organization Extensive Resources

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