ANTH350 Week 1 | General Anthropology in Anthropology - University of Maryland

8) What do you fear most about your illness/treatment?

Once you have collected the answers to these questions, you should analyze the responses in the context of the course learning using the references you listed in the week 3 assignment or other sources as needed. You should open the paper with a discussion of the interview itself. You should not provide the actual questions and answers, but a detailed summary of the interview. In other words, using the responses to the eight questions, discuss in detail how your interviewee explained their experience of their illness. You should use direct quotes to give voice to their experiences, and to validate your claims on their experiences. The next section of the paper should be your own analysis of the interview using the learning materials and other sources. Think about the reasons your interviewee explained their experiences the way they did. Was it due to cultural beliefs, social inequalities, stigma, or other factors that we are learning about in class? Make sure to connect their explanations of their illness to the medical anthropology literature. You should conclude your paper with your own thoughts about the interview and the explanatory model. Just as the healthcare professional uses the explanatory model to determine discrepancies in their perception of illness and the patient’s perception, how did you your perception of their illness compare with theirs? Did they tell you anything surprising or unexpected about how they feel about their illness? Why do you feel that discrepancies in perceptions occurred? Finally, what are your thoughts on the usefulness of the explanatory model? How can it contribute to cultural competency in the healthcare system? Writing Guidelines The final paper should be 4-6 pages in length, double-spaced with 12 point font, not including tables or the reference list. The final paper should include a title page, an introduction, a thesis statement, a body, a conclusion, and a reference list. ANTH350 Health, Illness, and Healing Final Research Paper Choose one of the following epidemic or pandemic diseases: Bubonic Plague, Smallpox, Leprosy, SARS, Polio, HIV/AIDS, Ebola, or H1N1. If you have another widespread epidemic or pandemic you want to write about please send me an e-mail for permission. The first section of your paper should be a detailed explanation of the origins of the disease, and how it spread. You also should trace the history of how it affected the human population for the time period in which it was prevalent. If the disease is still affecting large numbers of people (such as HIV/AIDS), you can pick a specific time period to discuss. What were the attempted medical and social interventions and preventions during that time period? The second part of the paper should focus on the anthropological contexts of the disease. How would a medical anthropologist view this disease? You should select specific concepts from the course learning activities. For example, you could include a detailed discussion of how the disease fits into either the ecological/evolutionary model of disease, or the political-economy model of disease. You could discuss it from a global health viewpoint, or from a structural violence viewpoint. You could bring in concepts such as stigma, or social inequalities. Make sure to include several of the course concepts in your discussion, and cite the appropriate academic sources. You should conclude your paper by responding to the question - if a medical anthropologist could go back in time to when this disease was prevalent, what could they contribute to the understanding of this disease? What specific contributions would they make? For example, if there was stigma surrounding the disease, what type of information about the stigma of this disease would an anthropologist research? What cultural factors relate to the rise and spread of this disease, etc.? How would a medical anthropologist be able to contribute to the understanding of this disease? In other words, your paper should not be a clinical or medical discussion of the disease, but an anthropological one using the concepts and theories you learned about in class. Writing Guidelines The final paper should be 5-7 pages in length, double-spaced with 12 point font, not including tables or the reference list. The final paper should include a title page, an introduction, a thesis statement, a body, a conclusion and a reference list. Readability Your paper should use correct grammar, effective topic sentences and transitions, an organized and clear flow, limited use of quotations, and synthesis of information using your own words. It should incorporate references. Citation and Reference Style Your paper should be written in APA style (7th edition). This assignment will use Turnitin to check for academic integrity. Please review the Turnitin information in your syllabus for more details.