On the Medicalization of Medical Anthropology

The following address was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Anthropology (SMA), November 21,1997, Washington, DC, by outgoing SMA president Carole Browner. It has been edited slightly for publication.     

Medicine and Medicalization: A Response to Purdy

Many feminists are critical of the practices and institutions that medicalize people's lives, especially the lives of women and other members of marginalized groups. I argue that this critique does not necessarily imply a rejection of medicine. I give a brief analysis of the concept of medicalization that supports the view that one can desire medicine without desiring medicalization. I then discuss the relations among what is considered natural, socially constructed, and medicalized.     

A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo

. Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo. Nancy Rose Hunt. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999. xii+475 pp.     

Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions

Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions. Lynn M. Morgan and Meredith W. Michaels. eds. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. vi +345 pp.     

Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis and Poetics

Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis and Poetics. Irma McClaurin, ed. East Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001. 277 pp.     

浅议《医学生物学》教学与临床医学的联系

《医学生物学》是一门重要的医学基础课程,它起着连接高中生物和医学其它基础课程的桥梁作用。教学过程中怎样紧密联系其它基础医学课程和临床医学课程,提高学生学习医学生物学的兴趣与积极性,是改善高等医学院校医学生物学教学质量的关键。笔者分别探讨了讲授绪论部分,细胞学部分以及遗传学部分时与临床医学联系的一些实例,并运用了一些新的教学方法和手段来改善教学效果,从而加深了学生对知识的理解和掌握,并提高了学生的动手能力和独立思考能力。