ANTC 411 THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF AIDS
TTH 2:00-3:15
Fall 2001
SYLLABUS
Patricia Whelehan, Ph.D., CST, CAI/counselor
122 MacVicar
267-2048
e-mail: whelehpe@potsdam.edu
Office Hours: M 10-12; TuTh 3:15-4pm and by appointment
Books/Readings: Women Resisting AIDS, Schneider & Stoller
Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome, Stine (3rd edition)
AS REAL AS IT GETS, Pogash
Reserve readings as appropriate: "The Wedding Gift", NYT OR
Nevid 1993 HIV/STD's OR
HIV Plus (OR) Scheper-Hughes
Human Rights in Cuba OR
Pilkington, Kern & Indest. "Safer Sex and Romance." OR
AIDS and Anthropology Bulletin April 2001 13(2) OR
Steinglass: “It Takes a Village Healer.”
Websites/Search
Engines: Yahoo/Google
SUNYPAEG: http://www.2.potsdam.edu/clubs/aeg
http://www.aegis.com
http://www.vaxgen.com/mission.htm
http://www.vaxgen.com/vaccine.htm
http://www.vaxgen.com/qanda.htm
http://www.gmhc.org (GMHC)
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/stats/hasrlink.htm (CDC stats)
http://www.aidsinfonyc.org/ai/about.html (AIDS Institute, NY)
http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/aids/hivtest.htm (HIV testing in NY) http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/research/hivaids.htm (stats or HIV in NY)
http://www.sfaf.org/treatment/beta/b41/b41sexual.html (treatment and risk stats)
http://www.aggressive.org/nurse_stat_current.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm5021.pdf
http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/od/20years.htm
http://www.GeneEd.com
http://www.cnn.con/SPECIALS/2001/aids
Google: AmFAR Treatment Directory
Student Services: The University supports equal access to services regardless of disability. Any student with a disability needing academic adjustments or accommodations should speak with the professor as early as possible. Students with disabilities should also contact: Sharon House, Coordinator of Accommodative Services at 267-3267, Sisson 112, or e-mail her at housese@potsdam.edu for further assistance. All disclosures will remain confidential.
Evaluation: A 15-20 page research paper is required. The format, deadline for submission and grade breakdown are attached. Your final grade is 20% class participation and 80% paper.
Requirements: 1) The research paper is our formal source of evaluation. Deadlines are non-negotiable.
2) Class attendance is mandatory. I follow the attendance policy described in the college catalog. After three unexcused absences, you will be asked to drop the course.
3) Class preparation and participation are required and mandatory. It is the only way I know that the course objectives can be met.
4) ANT 150 Human Sexuality - prerequisite.
ANT Major/GEP: This course meets the 400 Level course requirement for the major. It fills the GEP mode SA and is an upper division elective.
Objectives: The anthropological perspectives of holism and relativism are the foundation of this course. AIDS, a global health problem, effects the species at all levels of our being. We are going to examine AIDS medically, biologically, culturally, economically, politically, and behaviorally. We will apply these perspectives to specific groups as relevant. We will be doing anthropology.
The agenda for this course is to reach a cognitive understanding of AIDS which is internalized so that our attitudes and behaviors keep ourselves and others healthy and safe.
This class will be conducted as a seminar. This means that assigned readings are done so that class discussion of the readings can be held. You are expected to come to class prepared to discuss, question, and apply the readings. The topics are a guide and we will proceed through them at the group's pace. Confidentiality and trust are integral parts of the course. I will do what I can to create a safe, trusting environment in which each of us and the group can explore this phenomenon.
As much as possible, I will try to bring in guest lecturers who have specific expertise in various fields of AIDS work.
NO CLASSES: Tuesday, 10/09/01; Thursday, 11/22/01
PAPERS DUE: Thursday, December 6, 2001
PROPOSED TOPICS
I. Intro to course
II. Confidentiality
How to do a research paper
III. The Anthropological Perspective As it Applies to AIDS
IV. The Anthropology of Health and Illness
V. The Biology and Virology of AIDS
VI. The Epidemiology of AIDS
VII. Medical Aspects of AIDS
VIII. The Politics of AIDS
IX. The Economics of AIDS
X. Socio-psychological Dimensions of AIDS
XI. Women and AIDS
XII. AIDS and Risk Taking: Trust
XIII. AIDS and Sexuality
XIV. AIDS and Drugs
XV. HIV Test Issues
XVI. The Personal Dimension of AIDS
XVII. AIDS: Grieving and Loss
XVIII. AIDS and Humanity: What we've been given. Where we go.
Readings: Intro to course
Schneider & Stoller: Int, AIDS in the 90's
Stine: Chapter 1 + 2
The Anthropological Perspective as it Applies to AIDS
Vollmer Article (handout)
The Biology & Virology of AIDS
Schneider & Stoller: Greenblatt 124-139
Stine: Chapter 3, 5
Guest Speaker: Dr. T. Budd, Biology Prof.,
St. Lawrence University
The Epidemiology of AIDS
MMWR/CDC update
Schneider & Stoller:
Hollibaugh, 219
Bianco, 335
Mtshali, 162
Reback, 170
Schoepf, 246
Lewis, 57
Stine: Chapters 10, 11, 12
Steinglass: “It Takes a Village Healer” OR
Video: "AIDS in Africa"
Medical Aspects of AIDS
Pogash: Book
Schneider & Stoller:
Dennison, 195
Fraser & Jones, 286
Rodriquez-Trias & Marte, 301-322
Stine: Chapters 4, 6, 7
Video: "AIDS Beyond the Hospital;" "AIDS" (NOVA); "Living with HIV."
The Politics of AIDS
Video: "And The Band Played On"
Schneider & Stoller:
Schneider & Jenness, 74
Alexander, 99
Sosnowitz, 139
Hunter, 32
Stoller, 270
Stine: Chapter 17
Scheper-Hughes (OR): Cuba
AARG Bulletin April 2001 OR
The Economics of AIDS
Stine: Chapter 16
Socio-psychological Dimensions of AIDS
"The Wedding Gift" (OR)
Video: "It's My Party"
"Psychology of the HIV Caregiver"
Stine: Chapter 15
Women and AIDS
Schneider & Stoller: Lockett, 208
Videos: "Matter of the Heart"
"My Body's My Business"
AIDS & Risk Taking
Stine: Chapter 8
Video: "NYSDH Safer Sex"
AIDS & Sexuality
Nevid: HIV/STD (OR)
Stine: Chapter 9
AIDS & Drugs
HIV Test Issues
Stine: Chapter 13 and 14
NYS HIV Reporting Regs
The Personal Dimension of AIDS
*Guest Lecturer: Ms. Ruth Garner
Grieving and Loss
Death Awareness Sheets
AIDS and Humanity
VIDEOS: 1) And The Band Played On
2 ) AIDS In Africa
3) AIDS (NOVA)
4) Living with HIV
5) AIDS: Beyond the Hospital
6) Psychology of the HIV caregiver
7) My Body's My Business
8) NYSDH safer sex
9) Matter of the Heart
10) It's My Party