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In order to focus your analysis, try not to choose a very broad or nebulous condition such as ‘ill-health’. In order to address the local dimensions/contexts effectively you are welcome to adopt a comparative approach, so long as your compared locales are clearly defined. In your analysis, engage with the conceptual frameworks that were discussed during the term. It might be useful to think in these terms for example: In what ways is this [experience of] ……………………….. disease or condition ……………………………… situated in socio-political, cultural and/or historical contexts? What are the social implications of your approach to this topic? What theoretical and conceptual frameworks are you using to do this analysis? How to prepare Conduct a literature search and/or web-search to find an interesting case study. Do not just rely on one article / book chapter / account on the web. Search for additional material that provides complementary information and enables you to describe the case in-depth. Review the course literature, including the long list of Recommended Readings. Choose articles and book chapters that discuss particular topics, theories and concepts that are useful for analyzing your case. Your handbook provides an extensive reading list. Locate topics/theories/concepts that might be useful for your analysis. Make sure you take advantage of the Pandemic Readings and Resources section in your handbook. Structure: Your paper should be organized as follows: Introduction · Show that you have understood the title and what you are being asked to do. · State your objectives in the essay; . say what you are going to do. · Outline which aspects of the subject you are going to deal with and how. · Indicate what you are going to argue. Main Body In your main body, develop your argument by using ideas, facts, evidence, theories, models, and/or quotations from the primary texts. Bring together different ideas about the same subject and generate a conversation between them, which you mediate. Use sections with appropriate titles and headlines. The main body should be divided into the following two parts: (a) Thorough description of the case (b) Careful analysis of the case using the course readings and concepts discussed during the lectures and seminars Conclusion Your conclusion should give a sense of completion to your essay and should summarise the key arguments you have been making – although you should not simply go over everything again. Instead, briefly summarise and then tell me what in your opinion it all means – what are the implications of what you have discovered for how we could approach the disease or condition of your choice; what are the implications of your argument for medical anthropology and for understanding the non-medical aspects of health and illness. · Sum up your argument. · Indicate what the essay has and has not done. · Show that you have done what you said you were going to do in the introduction. · Offer a point of view in light of the evidence, opinions, ideas or theories that have been examined in the essay. · Feel free to establish a point or position Please make sure you follow citation guidelines, and revise and edit for typos, grammatical or syntax issues, and above all, clarity. What we look for when marking your assignment: • Essay question must be answered • Content: has student understood the topic; researched the question; thought critically about the question and readings? • Argument – is it clear what the essay is trying to do/argue? • Structure and logical progression • Clarity and presentation: Language must be clear/comprehensible, but do we NOT mark down because of second language English or grammar/spelling mistakes • Proper referencing – and avoiding [unwanted] plagiarism! • Word count should be 2500 – deduct marks if too long Finally, these are relevant references from the course, please use them as much as possible and refer to them in-text whenever you cite any relevant information (at least one of the 1st five must be used): 1. Lock, Margaret, and Vinh-Kim Nguyen. 2018. An Anthropology of Biomedicine. John Wiley & Sons. Chapter 2: The Normal Body; Chapter 4: Colonial Disease and Biological Commensurability 2. Foucault, M. Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974-1975, Graham Burchell trans., Arnold I. Davidson, English series editor (New York: Picador, 2003): Read Page 323- 329, and 334-339: 3. Benedict, Ruth. 1934. Anthropology and the Abnormal. Journal of General Psychology, 10:59- 80 (1934). Link to full article: pdf 4. Conrad, Peter. 1992. “Medicalization and Social Control.” Annual Review of Sociology. 18 (January): 209–32 5. Behrouzan, Orkideh. Proz?k Diaries (2016, Stanford University Press): Introduction and Chapter 1 (carefully read footnotes too) 6. Brewis, Alexandra A., Amber Wutich, Falletta-Cowden, and Isa Rodriguez-Soto. 2011. “Body Norms and Fat Stigma in Global Perspective.” Current Anthropology 52 (2) (April 1): 269– 276. (Link to full article: 7. Valentine, David. 2007. Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category. Chapter 1. Sajadi, Sahar. \”Puberty Suppression: Saving Children from a Natural Disaster?\” Journal of 8. Medical Humanities, Volume 34(2), June 2013. 9. Martin, E. 2007. Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and depression in American Culture. Princeton U. Press. 10. Das, Veena and Ranendra K. Das. 2007. “How the Body Speaks: Illness and the Lifeworld of the Urban Poor,” in Joao Biehl, Byron Good, and Arthur Kleinman, eds., Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 66-97. Feel free to suggest another title or disease!