Medical
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Medical Anthropology
Medical Sociology
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Medical
Humanities, etc. Announcements
Everett
Mendelsohn, Professor, Department of the History of
Science,
Harvard University; Wednesday, November 12,
12-1:30p; Life Science 202;
"The History of Science and Its Discontents"
(HPS)
Harriet
Stone, PhD,Professor, Dept of Romance Languages and
Literatures
(French), Wednesday, November 12, 5pm; Busch 113 -
Cohen Lounge (Hilltop);
"Bodies of Knowledge/Knowledge of Bodies:
Classifying Illness in Ambroise Paré
and Antoine Furetière" (MHSS)
Everett
Mendelsohn, Professor, Department of the History of
Science,
Harvard University; Thursday, November 13, 4pm -
Rebstock 215;
"Dolly and the Historians: Science, Politics and
Ethics of Cloning"
(Tom Hall Lecture)
Barton
Hamilton, Washington University, Thursday, November
20, 12p-1p,
Eliot Hall 300, "Moving Infertility Treatment from
the Bedroom to the Operating Room:
Does Competition Outperform Insurance
Coverage."
Sam
Greenblatt, Professor, Dept of Neurosciences, Brown
University; Wednesday,
December 3 , 12-1:30p; Life Science 202; "Harvey
Cushing and the History of
Neurosurgery in the United States" (HPS)
Rebecca
Messbarger, PhD, Associate Professor, Dept of
Romance Languages and
Literatures (Italian), Wednesday, December 10, 5pm;
Busch 113 - Cohen Lounge (Hilltop);
"The Female Gaze: Anatomist Anna Morandi
Manzolini's Study of the Male Reproductive
System and Genitalia" (MHSS)
Ira
Kodner, Solon & Bettie Gershman Professor, Dept
of Surgery, Friday, December 12,
4:30pm, Cohen Lounge, Busch Hall 113, (Hilltop),
"On ethics and humanities in surgical
training (MHSS)
Medical
Humanities, etc. at Washington
University
For
information about Medical Humanities initiatives at
Washington University, or to join the
History
and Philosophy of Science
(HPS+)
list, please contact Prof. Conevery
Valencius.
To
arrange a Special
Major in Medical
Humanities,
please negotiate this with the approppriate
faculty and the Dean of the College
of Arts and
Sciences.
For
official information about the Religious
Studies Program,
please contact Professor
Ahmet
Karamustafa,
akaramus@artsci.wustl.edu.
Medical
Humanities, etc. Faculty
at Washington University
(Non-Exhaustive List)
(Note:
To contact faculty and students in the St Louis
area who have expressed interest in
Medical Humanities, please join the
History
and Philosophy of Science List
(HPS+);
to join,
please contact Prof. Conevery
Valencius)
(This
page is under construction; suggestions are
welcome. This is an unofficial list of local
faculty with major or minor research or teaching
interests in Medical Humanities, and is neither
a description of, nor a proposal for, a formal
Medical Humanities program. The order is
random.)
Professor
Conevery
Valencius,
Department
of History
(History of Medicine, American Environment,
Medicine and Peoples)
Professor
Walt
Schalick,
Department
of History
(History of Medicine, Medieval Europe,
History of Disabilities, Pediatric and Family
Medicine)
Professor
Kenneth
Ludmerer,
School
of Medicine
(History of Medicine)
Professor
Satadru
Sen,
Department
of History
(History
of Mental Illness and
Deviance)
Professor
G.
Edward Montgomery,
Department
of Anthropology
(Medical Anthropology,
Food and Nutrition, Ayurveda, Anthropology of
America, Postethnicity, Culture and Alternative
Medicine, Food and Culture, Life Cycles and Life's
Stages)
Professor
Pascal
Boyer,
Department
of Anthropology
(Anthropology of Religion)
Professor
Shanti
Parikh,
Department
of Anthropology
(Medical Anthropology, Sexuality and
HIV/AIDS, Social Change, Globalization, Gender,
Popular Culture, East Africa)
Professor
Rebecca
Lester,
Department
of Anthropology
(Medical Anthropology, Gender,
Embodiment, Ritual and Religion)
Professor
Bradley
P.
Stoner,
Department
of Anthropology
(Medical Anthropology, Sociocultural
and Internal Medicine, Epidemiology, Anthropology
of Public Health, Sexually Transmitted
Diseases; Peru, Urban North America)
Professor
Geoff
Childs,
Department
of Anthropology
(Anthropological Demography, Fertility,
Ageing, Family Systems, Tibet, Nepal)
Professor
Mark
Rollins,
Department
of Philosophy
(History and Philosophy of Science,
Philosophy of Mind)
Professor
Joel
Anderson,
Department
of Philosophy
(Ethics)
Professor
Robert
B. Barrett,
Department
of Philosophy
(Renaissance Science)
Professor
Eric
Brown,
Department
of Philosophy
(Ethics, History of Post-Ancient
Philosophy)
Professor
Carl
F. Craver,
Department
of Philosophy
IPhilosophy of Science, Neuroscience,
Philosophy of Mind. Interfaces of the Philosophy of
Science, Neuroscience, and the Philosophy
of Mind)
Professor
J.
Claude Evans,
Department
of Philosophy
(History of Modern Philosophy, Political
Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy and Literature;
Environmental Ethics, Philosophy of Hunting
and Fishing; Existentialism, Kierkegaard,
Nietzsche; 20th Century Continental Philosophy,
Husserl, Derrida; Kant, History of Modern
Philosophy; Wilfrid Sellars)
Professor
Marilyn
A. Friedman,
Department
of Philosophy
(Ethics, Social Philosophy,
Feminist Theory)
Professor
Roger
F. Gibson,
Department
of Philosophy
(Philosophy of Language, Philosophy
of Science)
Professor
Pauline
Kleingeld,
Department
of Philosophy
(Ethics and Feminist Theory)
Professor
Larry
May,
Department
of Philosophy
(Ethics, Philosophy of Law, Social and
Political Philosophy)
Professor
Philip
Robbins,
Department
of Philosophy
(Philosophy of Psychology,
Philosophy of Language)
Professor
Sthaneshwar
Timalsina,
Department
of Asian and Near Eastern Languages
and Literatures
(Tantra, Ayurveda, Alchemy)
Professor
Alison
Wylie,
Department
of Philosophy
(Philosophy of the Social and
Historical Sciences, Feminist Theories of
Science)
Professor
Peter
Bradley,
Department
of Philosophy
(Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Color
and Color Perception)
Professor
Charles
Starkey,
Department
of Philosophy
(Ethics, Philosophy of Mind [Emotion],
Moral Psychology, Euthanasia, Dr.
Kevorkian)
Professor
Whit
Schonbein,
Department
of Philosophy
(Artificial
Life,
Sociocultural Psychology,
the Relation
of Language to the World and to
Cognition,
Philosophy of Science,
Postmodernism and Modernism)
Professor
Linda Nicholson, (Women
and Gender Studies)
Professor
Beata
Grant,
Program
in Religious
Studies
(Religion and Gender, Religion and
Reproduction, Buddhist Ethics, East
Asia)
Professor
Ahmet
Karamustafa,
Program
in Religious
Studies
(Soul and Person in World Religions)
Professor
Fatemeh
Keshavarz,
Program
in Religious
Studies
(Religious Studies, Islam)
Professor
Jerome
Bauer,
Program
in Religious
Studies
(Food
and Religion,
Religious
Dimensions of Reproduction, Ayurveda,
Yoga
Traditions,
Complementary
and Alternative
Medicine,
Integrative Medicine, Religious
Therapeutics,
South
Asia)
Local
universities:
Professor
James
Buickerhood,
University
of Missouri-St
Louis
(History of Medicine)
Professor
Ronald
Munson,
University
of Missouri-St
Louis
(Philosophy of Medicine)
Professor
Gregory
P. Fields,
Southern
Illinois
University-Edwardsville
(Religious Therapeutics;
Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra; Jungian Psychology,
Indiia, Tibet)
Jerome
Bauer's Medical Humanities Courses
ReSt
223 [UC]
"Hindu
Medicine and Indian
Food"
=Anthro 2231
ReSt
3392 [339F] "Topics in South Asian
Religion: Yoga
Traditions"
=International Studies 339F
[history of Indian medicine and alchemy]
ReSt
3391 "Karma
and Rebirth"
[comparative medical ethics; abortion,
euthanasia, suicide, organ donation,
cloning]
ReSt
3393 "Miracles,
Marvels, and Magic"
[
faith healing and religious
therapeutics]
ReSt
250F "Hinduism:
An Introduction"
[one unit on Ayurveda; students may write on
Indian medicine]
Washington
University Medical Humanities
Courses and Programs (Non-Exhaustive
List)
(This
page is under construction; suggestions are
welcome! Please contact Jerome
Bauer)
Programs:
Philosophy,
Neuroscience, Psychology Program
(PNP)
[An interdisciplinary second major; please
contact Professor Mark
Rollins
for details]
History
and Philosophy of
Science
[An interdisciplinary undergraduate minor
program; please contact Professor Mark
Rollins
for details]
Women
and Gender Studies
Program
[For information please contact Professor
Linda
Nicholson]
Linguistic
Studies Program
Special
Major in Medical
Humanities,
please negotiate this with the approppriate
faculty and the Dean of the College
of Arts and
Sciences.
Courses
offered in Autumn 2003:
Anthro
141 Freshman Seminar: Medicine and Society
(Professor Bradley
P.
Stoner)
Anthro
260 [UC]
Topics in Health and Community (Professor
Bradley
P.
Stoner)
Anthro
3134 The AIDS Epidemic: Inequalities, Ethnography,
and Ethics (Professor Shanti
Parikh)
Anthro
333 [UC]
Culture and Health (Professor Edward
Montgomery)
Anthro
3882 Psychological Anthropology (Professor
Rebecca
Lester )
Anthro
4091 Sexuality, Gender, and Change in Africa
(Professor Shanti
Parikh)
Anthro
4112 Body and Flesh: Theorizing Embodiment
(Professor Rebecca
Lester )
Anthro
4881 Medicine and Anthropology (Professor
Bradley
P.
Stoner )
ReSt
223 [UC]
Hindu
Medicine and Indian
Food
(Professor Jerome
Bauer)
ReSt
250F Hinduism:
An Introduction
(Professor Jerome
Bauer)
[Includes material on Ayurveda, Indian
classical medicine]
ReSt
303 Taoist Tradition (Professor Chao)
[Includes material on Chinese
alchemy]
Phil
233F Biomedical Ethics (Professor
Willburn)
Phil
233 [UC]
Biomedical Ethics (Professor Eric Rovie)
Phil
315 Philosophy of Mind (Professor
Piccinini)
Phil
419 Philosophy of Psychology (Professor
Bermudez)
History
3522 In Syknesse and in Healthe: History of
Medicine in the Middle Ages
(Professor Walt
Schalick)
History
4033 Race, Sex and Sexuality: Concepts of Identity
(Professor Linda Nicholson)
History
4973 Advanced
Seminar: Criminals, Lunatics, Rebels and
Colonialism
(Professor Satadru
Sen)
Courses
Offered in the Past (Non-Exhaustive
List):
Anthropology
Anthro
3201 Gender, Culture, and Madness (Professor
Rebecca
Lester)
Anthro
142 Freshman Seminar: Medicine and Society
(Professor Rebecca
Lester)
[Last taught Spring
2003]
Anthro
3201 Gender, Culture, and Madness (Professor
Rebecca
Lester)
[Last taught Spring
2003]
Anthro
3321 Culture, Food, and Nutrition (Professor
Edward
Montgomery)
[Last taught Spring
2003]
Anthro
369 Life Cycles and Life Styles(Professor
Edward
Montgomery)
[Last taught Spring
2003]
Anthro
4362 Local Genders / Global Transformations
(Professor Shanti
Parikh)
Anthro
4091 Sexuality, Gender, and Change in Africa
(Professor Shanti
Parikh)
[Last taught Spring
2003]
Anthro
4883 The Political Economy of Health (Professor
Bradley
P.
Stoner)
[Last taught Spring
2003]
History
History
3063 This Land Is Your Land: A Survey of US
Environmental History
(Professor Conevery
Valencius)
=AMCS
306, =EnSt
306
[Last offered Fall 2002]
History
3065 Sciences of Nature (Professor Conevery
Valencius)
=AMCS
3065, =EnSt
307
[Last offered Fall 2002]
Philosophy
Phil
233F
Biomedical Ethics (Professors Hawkins and
May)
Religious
Studies
ReSt
417 Soul, Self and Person in Judaism, Christianity,
and Islam:
A Comparative Examination
(Professor Ahmet
Karamustafa)
American
Culture Studies
AMCS
306 This Land Is Your Land: A Survey of US
Environmental History
(Professor Conevery
Valencius)
=History
3063, =EnSt
306
[Last offered Fall 2002]
AMCS
3065 Sciences of Nature (Professor Conevery
Valencius)
=History
3065, =EnSt
307
[Last offered Fall 2002]
Environmentall
Studies
EnSt
306 This Land Is Your Land: A Survey of US
Environmental History
(Professor Conevery
Valencius)
=AMCS
306, =History
3063
[Last offered Fall 2002]
EnSt
307 Sciences of Nature (Professor Conevery
Valencius)
=AMCS
3065, =History
3065
[Last offered Fall 2002]
Medical
Humanities Courses and Faculty
at Local Universities
(This
page is under construction; suggestions are
welcome. Please contact Jerome
Bauer)
Philosophy
Department
MA
Program in
Philosophy
(including Philosophy of Religion,
Ethics)
Professor
James
Buickerhood
(History of Medicine)
Professor
Ronald
Munson
(Philosophy of Medicine)
Professor
Gregory
P. Fields
(Religious Therapeutics; Yoga, Ayurveda, and
Tantra;
Jungian Psychology, India, Tibet)
Selected
Medical Humanities Bibliography
(This
page is under construction; suggestions are
welcome. Please contact Jerome
Bauer)
The
Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval
India
White, David Gordon. 1996. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press
BL1241.56
.W47 1996 Olin Level B Stacks
The
Jungle and the Aroma of Meats: An Ecological Theme
in Hindu
Medicine
Zimmermann, Francis. 1999. Delhi: Motilal
Banarsidass
R606
.Z513 1999 Olin Level A Stacks
Cooking,
Cuisine, and Class: A Study in Comparative
Sociology
Goody, Jack. 1982. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press
GT2855
G66 1982 Olin Level A Stacks
Religious
Therapeutics: Body and Health in Yoga, Ayurveda,
and Tantra
Fields, Gregory P. 2001. Albany: SUNY Press
R606
.F53 2001 Olin Level A Stacks
Cyborg
Babies: From Techno-Sex to
Techno-Tots
Davis-Floyd, Robbie, et. al., eds. 1998. New York:
Routledge
RG133.5
.C9 1998 Olin Level A Stacks
Healing
Traditions: Alternative Medicine and the Health
Professions
O'Connor, Bonnie Blair. 1995. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press
MOBIUS
Holdings
History
of Sexuality
Foucault, Michel. 1978.
HQ12
F6813 1978 Olin Level A Stacks
Medical
Humanities Links
(Neither
I nor anyone else at Washington University
necessarily endorse these websites).
Division
of Medical Humanities, Health Law, and Ethics,
University of Connecticut
American
Ayurvedic Association
Prerak:
Ayulink Newsletter
Ayurveda
Products
Dr.
Mukesh B. Paneri's Ayurveda Website
National
Institute of Health (NIH)
National
Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
(NCCAM)
American
Medical Student Association (AMSA)
AMSA
Resources: Complementary and Alternative Medicine
(CAM)
American
Medical Student Association, Washington University
Chapter
HuMed
(AMSA's Humanistic Medicine Action
Committee)
Humanistic
Elective in Alternative Medicine, Activism and
Reflective Transformation (HEART)
Society
of Ethnobiology (including
Ethnobotany)
UCLA
Folk Medicine Archive
History
of Science Society
Society
for Medical Anthropology (SMA)
Society
for Humanistic Anthropology (SHA)
Council
on Anthropology and Reproduction
(CAR)
AAA
Bioethics Interest Group (BIG)
American
Association for the History of Medicine
(AAHM)
Zygon
Center for Religion and Science
Zygon
(Journal of Religion and
Science)
BL240.2
Z9 Olin Level B Stacks
University
of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Center for
Bioethics
Penn
Bioethics Society
Penn-In-India
[Note: This is a summer program, open to
non-Penn students,and is recommended very
highly
by WashU students who have enrolled! The syllabus
includes Ayurvedic medicine and
nutrition.]
Yoga
Courses at Washington University
Ayurveda
Courses at Washington University
Tantra
Courses at Washington University
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