1) A Reader in Medical Anthropology. Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities, edited by Byron J. Good, Michael M.J. Fischer, Sarah S. Willen, e Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
2) A Companion to Medical Anthropology, edited by Merril Singer and Pamela I. Erickson, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 .
Per la seconda parte del corso, l’insegnante assegnerà la lettura di articoli e capitoli legati ai temi delle lezioni, secondo il calendario stabilito. Tali testi verranno presentati in aula dagli studenti, secondo un calendario concordato insieme, e costituiranno parte della valutazione.
Oltre ai due volumi sopracitati, agli studenti non frequentanti è richiesto di concordare il programma con il docente e di scegliere con lui di due volumi aggiuntivi dalla seguente lista:
BIEHL João, 2009, Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival, Princeton University Press.
CSORDAS Thomas J., 2002, Body/Meaning/Healing, Palgrave.
FARMER PAUL, 1992, AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame, University of California Press.
FARMER Paul, 1999, Infections and inequalities. The modern plagues, University of California Press.
FARMER Paul, 2003, Pathologies of power. Health, human rights, and the new war on the poor, University of California Press.
FASSIN Didier, 2007, When Bodies Remember. Experiences and Politics of AIDS in South Africa, University of California Press.
FASSIN Didier, 2011, Humanitarian Reason. A Moral History of the Present, University of California Press.
FASSIN Didier and RECHTMAN Richard, 2009, The Empire of Trauma. An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood, Princeton University Press.
KLEINMAN Arthur, 1995, Writing at the Margin: Discourse Between Anthropology and Medicine, University of California Press.
INHORN Marcia C., 2003, Local Babies, Global Science: Gender, Religion, and In Vitro Fertilization in Egypt, Routledge.
LOCK Margaret and NGUYEN Vinh-Kim, 2010, An Anthropology of Biomedicine, Wiley-Blackwell.
LOCK Margaret, 2001, Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death, University of California Press.
MARTIN Emily, 1994, Flexible Bodies. Tracking Immunity in American Culture - From the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS, Beacon Press.
MATTINGLY Cheryl, 1998, Healing dramas and clinical plots. The narrative structure of experience, Cambridge University Press.
MOL Annemarie, 2003, The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice, Duke University Press.
NGUYEN Vinh-Kim, 2010, The Republic of Therapy: Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa’s Time of AIDS, Duke University Press.
PETRYNA Adriana, 2002, Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl, Princeton University Press.
TICKTIN Miriam, 2011, Casualties of Care. Immigration and the politics of humanitarianism in France, University of California Press.