ANTH 227 (4-3) Biopolitics and Environmental Health PDF

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Department of Anthropology McGill University Fall 2019 Introduction to Medical Anthropology ANTH 227 Stewart Medical Building, Room S1-4 Professor Sandra Teresa Hyde, [email protected] Leacock Building, Room 818, 855 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest Wednesday, 14h00 – 16h00 (1) Murphy, Michelle. 2017. “Alter life and Decolonial Chemical Relations.” Cultural Anthropology 32 (4): 494–503. MC

(2) Roberts, Elizabeth S. 2017. “What Gets Inside: Violent Entanglements and Toxic Boundaries in Mexico City.” Cultural Anthropology 32 (4): 562–619. MC

05.11. Part One - Citation Review Introduction to APA: In-text citation basics. • Parenthetical; Narrative 'Author (date) text. (page/PP.-21-22)'. Part Two - Yunnan, Sex Workers and the Chinese AIDS Epidemic Continued. Unruly bodies - Bodies that aren't aligned with the defined body norms. Distinguishing a healthy and unhealthy body: Free of disease; Weight; Assessing metabolic diseases (diabetes, cardiovascular risk). Representation of minorities. • Cultural specificities and authenticity in the 'Tai New Year Water Splashing Festival'; Tourist economy has regarded the cultural practices for their benefit. The Yunnan School of Painting Have depictions of minority bodies blossomed in a school of painting that sexualizes them, draws on unruly bodies? How does public health approach an epidemic in its beginnings? The co-determinants of culture and biology. The aesthetics of statistics - Distribution of AIDS Cases in Yunnan Province by Ethnic Group; A reverse relationship. The economy: Rates of sexually transmitted infections and the military. One of the first medical groups to acknowledge the correlation between sexual labour & sexually transmitted diseases; Leads in prevention. •

Everyday AIDS practices: Sex Industry Workers and Transactional Sex. Entertainment venues; Karaoke bars; Gambling salons; Clubs; Hair salons. Narratives of empowerment vis-à-vis narratives of exploitation.

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Sexual Transmission Increase: the sexual fetishization of minority representation. Over the last decade and a half. Prevention: 5-year policy i.Condom promotion, needle exchange and methadol maintenance; Avoiding the discussion of the social-evils of drug-use and sexual labour (prostitution).

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Unofficial, illegal treatment clinics (black clinics); Government - Centers for Disease Control (former anti-epidemic stations) partnered with global hybrid NGOs 1. International Red Cross/Yunnan Red Cross; Save the Children Foundation/Army; Social Marketing Firms/Population Services International and Futures Group. ii.Four Frees and One Care Policy i. Free triple ARV cocktail therapies; Harm reduction and treatment for injection drug users; Economic aid for HIV-affected individuals Ignorance of individuals of the country-side. Targets corporates in the spread of epidemic - stigmatization of migrants, prostitutes. Ways of thinking about epidemics. i.Epidemiological thinking v; i. Confined within a bounded population - risk groups. ii.Geographic thinking. i. Confined within a bounded area. Black Clinics: A hotel room, uninsured medical education - prescription of antibiotics. The first line of addressing the epidemic, preceding the government. Condom promotion provides too much technology and too little political economy; Little information on infection; Barriers in testing & treatment. Not beginning to see the ramifications of the chronic illness. Security Police The use of condom as evidence; On-going issue in arresting sexual labour workers rather than the consumer. E.g. Ye Haiyan, Sex Worker Rights Groups - Feminist debate. Public Health Prevention A multifactorial responses to treatment; Treatment as prevention. Bringing together practices and institutional power structures as both discursive. Grounded in insight; Linguistic realities; District-bound discourse; Social action in addressing prevention. • Foucault's biopower; Patton's epidemiological and geographical thinking....