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= Medical Anthropology History =

Welcome to Medical Anthropology History Wiki, where you can find “a map” of medical anthropology, a subfield of social and cultural anthropology. This map is organized around what we consider as “the most important theoretical frames that have shaped and continue to shape medical anthropology” (B. Good et al. 2010: 2).

This Wiki is a class project, by students and faculties, in //Anthropology 2793: Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities// at Harvard University (Spring 2012), the course instructed by Prof. Byron Good, Prof. Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, and Prof. Michael M.J. Fischer (MIT).

Contents

 * Medical Anthropology Overview**: What is medical anthropology?, history, link to interesting sources; MA timeline
 * Key theoretical frames**: development and trajectories, key concepts (description), key figures, bibliographies, resources
 * **Frame 1** - Antecedents
 * **Frame 2** - Illness and Narrative, Body and Experience
 * **Frame 3** - Governmentalities and Biological Citizenship
 * **Frame 4** - The Biotechnical Embrace
 * **Frame 5** - Biosciences, Biotechnologlies
 * **Frame 6** - Global Health, Global Medicine
 * **Frame 7** - Postcolonial Disorder
 * Key Figures**: lists, link to each figure: identifications, influenced by (people, institutes, events, etc.) and how, key works, key contributions to medical anthopology, bibliography of key works, interesting resource
 * Key Terms**: terms/concepts, schools/traditions/institutes, events
 * Bibliographies**: bibliography lists, bibliography by authors
 * Instruction** for participant

**Objectives**

 * To create “a map” of the field of medical anthropology
 * To create a set of annotated bibliographies of key works in the field

**Method**
Using group collaboration through Wiki programming to share and learn together through discussion and edition. Using //A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities// (B. Good et al. 2010) as a guide to: Mapping tools:
 * Create a set of key words (people, traditions, concepts, institutions, etc.) and their identification
 * Create a system of classification
 * Compile a set of annotated bibliographies
 * Using “hypertext” technology (through internet based Wiki programming) to create network of key information by linking each key word in a text with other key words and various forms of information.
 * Creating visualized representations (e.g. table, map, illustration, etc.) to create thematic or logical connection of some set of information

Reference
Byron Good, Michael Fischer, Sarah Willen, and Mary-Jo Good eds. 2010. //A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realitie//. Malden: Wiley-Brackwell.

Project Participants
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**Faculties**
Byron Good Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good Michael M.J. Fischer

**Students**
Wirun Limsawart Kimberly Sue Hsuan-Ying Huang Felicity Aulino Nabil Khan Cara Guenther Ariel Kiyomi Lepon John Mei Shika Card