1. + ANTH/HSERV 475 Perspectives in Medical Anthropology University of WashingtonAlejandro Cerón Week 2: Mon, 10/4/2010

2. + Class outline Intro Key concepts from readings “The Vaccine Wars” (55’ video) Discussion (California 2010 outbreak) Readings for Wednesday Web project assignment

3. + Intro Today’s class goals Talk, exchange ideas Share a concrete example Link readings to example Learning process Meaningful Integration You Text Your experience Context Our input

4. + Sterilizing vaccines or the politics of the womb Feldman-Savelsberg et al (2000)

5. + (Unrelated link shows a vaccination campaign in West Africa)link  Rumor: a specific proposition for belief, passed along from person to person without secure standards of evidence  A form of individual and collective information-seeking when a formal information gap exists (incomplete information or mistrust of official sources)  Emerge in atmosphere of uncertainty and credulity.  Ambiguity and importance are essential elements  Rumor also emerges to explain relationships between groups of unequal political, economic, or social power.

6. + Patterns of vaccination acceptance Streefland, Pieter, A.M.R. Chowdhury, and Pilar Ramos-Jimenez (1999)

7. + Importance of context Gradations of acceptance/non-acceptance Non-acceptance Mothers are willing to go, but unable to do so Mothers just refuse to go (inadequacy of vaccination services) Mothers question the need for vaccination Explanatory perspectives Variations in rational vaccination use Collective decisions by vaccination users Trust in competent provider Risk perception State control over people’s bodies

8. + Anti-vaccination movements and their interpretations Blume, Stuart (2006)

9. + Individual rights VRS public health is based on trust Difference between social movement and experience Public health’s framing it as social movement is misleading

10. + “The Vaccine Wars” (link to video)link to video 8 groups Each group will have 15 minutes to choose something from the readings (one concept, term, thesis, example) that illuminates the debate presented in the video. Each group will choose one person to report back to the larger group Where in the readings is what you found illuminating Explain what it is and how does it illuminates the debate

11. + Whooping cough outbreak in California (June-July 2010) Fox News (link)link Fox Philly’s Dr. Mike (link)link CNN, video and comments (link)link California Department of Public Health (link) source for the charts, map and report below.link Baycitizen.org, story and comments (link)link abc (link)link NVIC (link)link

12. + Google search “whooping cough [news]” (link)link CDC MMWR (link)link

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19. + Readings for Wednesday Janzen Chapter 1 What is medical anthropology Some key concepts: sickness, suffering, illness, disease, healing, sign, symptom. Janzen Chapter 2 History Do not focus on the details but on getting the large picture of the history and theories Come prepared to draw a timeline that synthesizes this chapter

20. + Web project assignment Some examples here, here, and here.here Question: If you do not have a Google account, would you be willing to open one?