Brenna McCaffrey

Classes

• ANTH 302: Medical Anthropology

  This course explores the cultural, social, economic, political, and environmental factors that affect health and well- being-as well as the practice of healing and medicine-across cultures. We will use theories and methods from critical medical anthropology to examine the social determinants of health and health inequality.

• ANTH 319: Politics of Reproduction

  The biological and social reproduction of the human species is a complex process that engages all major institutions of society: family, religion, morality, health, economy, and government. Using cross-cultural and social historical materials, this course will examine cases in which control over reproduction is contested. We will focus on the various ways anthropologists have theorized reproduction, as well as draw from research across the social sciences. Key topics will include: the medicalization of reproduction, reproductive technologies, ideas of "the family," activism, eugenics, reproductive justice, and queer family formation. Class materials will explore these topics in a global perspective; students will also select a topic of their choice in a non-US cultural context to examine throughout the semester's assignments.

• ANTH 402: Sociomed Sci Cap Research

  This course is an in-depth examination of research in the sociomedical sciences. Students read and think critically about contemporary interdisciplinary research studies on health and medicine from across the globe. Students also learn how to design and conduct a study of an issue related to health, disease, illness and/or medicine.