1. Ethnographic Essay: Details: You will write a short 800 word essay, highlighting a unique case study based on your own experience (or family/ friends) or being addressed in the media (newspapers, the news) that showcases: 1. The relationship between individual illness management and governance/power relations, 

OR;

2. The relationship between healing, the body, and social world/cultural context. Once you have chosen your case-study and topic (1 or 2), you will use your case study as a way to discuss one of these larger topics, while remaining specific about context. You are expected to make an argument about how we might better understand or interpret a particular example of illness management under the conditions of Modernity and contemporary society or a particular example of a healing practice, ritual, modality, etc in light of your case study. Your argument needs to be supported by your case-study and references to the readings we have discussed in the lectures and tutorials, and or that are advised as weekly readings. Make sure your essay is written and structured clearly, you can use subheadings. Make sure to include a title and a short conclusion which summarises the essay's main arguments.  Referencing: Any style is accepted as long as it is consistent!  Include full bibliography of all cited works (a minimum of 3 readings; maximum 5). The following criteria will be taken into account in assessing your essay:

·       How well the case study illustrates or highlights the chosen topic (1 or 2)

·       Analysis 

.       Referencing

·       Writing and the organisation of the paper

Formatting: Use 1.5 line spacing and 12 Times New Roman font. Submit your research essay via the Turnitin link available on iLearn under the assessment tab.

2. Take Home Exam:

This take-home exam is due by the end of week 13 on Sunday, 9th November (by 23:55) and should be submitted via Turnitin. It is worth 50% of the overall assessment for this unit. It conists of two parts. Make sure to complete both parts!

Formatting: Use a single word document to record your answers. Use either 1,5 or double- spacing and size 12 font. Make sure to include the questions you choose with your responses and upload them as a single document via the Turnitin link on Ilearn.

Part One: You must answer 3 of the 5 questions in Section 1 and write a 200- word response (+ or – ten per cent of the word count is acceptable) to each of the three questions you choose to answer. 

Part Two: You must answer one question only for which you must provide a 500-word response (+ or – ten per cent of the word count is acceptable).

Assessment information: you will be assessed on the following criteria:

·        Demonstrated capacity to understand and engage with the lecture and reading material;

·        Ability to coherently answer questions in your own words;

·        The clarity of written expression

Do not include a bibliography, but if you quote an author you need to cite it in-text. For example: (Smith 2020)

Part 1 (worth 50%): Short answer questions Write a 200-word response to three of the following questions:

1.     What is the field of medical anthropology or ethnomedicine? And how do medical anthropologists ’do’ research? Provide at least four methodologies and explain what they entail.

2.    Provide at least two examples discussed during the lectures of how culture influences health and the perceptions of health.

3.  Use an example discussed during the lectures and/or tutorials that explains Kleinman's notion of illness as an “innately human experience of symptoms and suffering”, and that exemplifies his distinctions between illness, disease and sickness (Kleinman 1988: 3). 

4.  According to you, how do culturally specific understandings of gender and sexuality problematise the Euro-American view of queerness and what it means to be a so-called sexual minority? 

5.  Do you agree that state/biomedical interventions have increasingly encroached upon our experiences of illness? Why/why not? Draw on relevant examples from your own experiences. 

Part 2 (worth 50%): write a 500-word response to the following question:

 How does medical anthropology contribute to the diagnosis and treatment of disease and of illness? Discuss by drawing on the lecture material and by making connections with specific examples from the unit readings.

Important Assessment Information: Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, a 5% penalty (of the total possible mark) will be applied each day a written assessment is not submitted, up until the 7th day (including weekends). After the 7th day, a mark of '0' (zero) will be awarded even if the assessment is submitted. Submission time for all written assessments is set at 11.55pm. A 1-hour grace period is provided to students who experience a technical issue. This late penalty will apply to non-time sensitive assessment (incl. essays, reports, posters, portfolios, journals, recordings etc). Late submission of time sensitive tasks (such as tests/exams, performance assessments/presentations, scheduled practical assessments/labs etc) will only be addressed by the unit convenor in a Special Consideration application. Special Consideration outcome may result in a new question or topic.

13 Lectures and weekly tutorials starting in week 2. Resources are available via LEGANTO