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Lecture slides
● Amara Miller, CSU East Bay, The Social Science of COVID-19
Global health
● Janes, Craig R. and Kitty K. Corbett. “Anthropology and Global Health.” Annual Review
of Anthropology 2009 38:1, 167-183.
“Unnatural” Disasters
● Film Series: Unnatural Causes: California Newsreel. 2008: https://unnaturalcauses.org/
Climate and Environment
Governance
Borders and Movement (see also “Structural Vulnerability” for issues related to
immigration)
● Benton, Adia. “Border Promiscuity, Illicit Intimacies, and Origin Stories,” Somatosphere,
March 6 2020.
● Taylor, R.C. 2013. “The politics of securing borders and the identities of disease.”
Sociology of Health & Illness, 35: 241-254. doi:10.1111/1467-9566.12009
Surveillance
● Sangaramoorthy, Thurka. 2012. “Treating the numbers: HIV/AIDS surveillance,
subjectivity, and risk.” Medical Anthropology, 31(4):292-309. doi:
10.1080/01459740.2011.622322.
Syndemics
● Eligon, John. 2020. “For Urban Poor, the Coronavirus Complicates Existing Health
Risks.” New York Times, March 7.
● Nordling, Linda. “'A ticking time bomb:' Scientists worry about coronavirus spread in
Africa.” Science Magazine - News, March 15 2020. doi:10.1126/science.abb7331
Structural vulnerability
● Calarco, Jessica. “Online learning will be hard for kids whose schools close – and the
digital divide will make it even harder for some of them.” The Conversation, March 13
2020.
● Chapin, Angelina. “An outbreak of coronavirus along the border could be deadly and
devastating.” Huffington Post, March 11, 2020.
● Finerman, Grace. 2020. “Homeless shelters struggle with social distancing during
COVID-19 scare.” WKYT, March 8.
● Galea, Sandro. 2020. “The Poor and Marginalized Will Be Hardest Hit by Coronavirus.”
Scientific American, March 9.
● “Detroit Set to Restore Water Service Amid Coronavirus Fears.” New York Times, March
9, 2020.
● Herman, Bob. “Paul Farmer on the coronavirus: ‘this is another caregivers’ disease.’”
Axios, March 9, 2020.
● Hume, Tim. “No Soap, Little Water, and No Way Out: Refugee Camps Brace for
Coronavirus.” Vice News, March 13 2020.
● Jones, Sarah. “The Coronavirus Puts the Class War Into Stark Relief.” Intelligencer,
March 10, 2020.
● Thurston, Domina. “America’s poorest children won’t get nutritious meals with school
cafeterias closed due to the coronavirus.” The Conversation, March 13 2020.
● Yuan, Li. 2020. “In Coronavirus Fight, China’s Vulnerable Fall through the Cracks.” New
York Times, March 9.
● Zaman, Muhammad. “Opinion: Refugees Are Especially Vulnerable To COVID-19. Don't
Ignore Their Needs.” NPR, March 11 2020.
Incarceration
● McKinley, Jesse. 2020. “Cuomo’s Fix for Sanitizer Shortage: 100,000 Gallons Made by
Prisoners.” New York Times, March 9.
Disability
● Charis Hill, “‘The Cripples Will Save You’: A Critical Coronavirus Message from a
Disability Activist”
Mental Health/Psychology/Panic
● Brewis, Alexandra, and Amber Wutich. “The Social Dangers of Saving Others From
Coronavirus: Lessons from the frightening days of MERS.” Psychology Today, March
11, 2020.
● Glassner, Barry. “When fear upends daily life.” LA Times, March 12, 2020.
Gender
● In-gyu, Oh. “Why are Women in their 20s More Susceptible to Coronavirus in Korea?”
The Korea Times, March 9, 2020.
● Godderis, R. and Rossiter, K. 2013. ‘If you have a soul, you will volunteer at once’:
gendered expectations of duty to care during pandemics. Sociology of Health & Illness,
35: 304-308. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9566.2012.01495.x
● Jeltsen, Melissa. “Home is Not a Safe Place for Everyone.” Huffington Post, March 12
2020.
● Wenham, Clare, Julie Smith, and Rosemary Morgan. 2020. “COVID-19: the gendered
impacts of the outbreak.” Lancet.
Health infrastructure
● Specht, Liz. “What does the coronavirus mean for the U.S. health care system? Some
simple math offers alarming answers.” STAT, March 20, 2020.
● Street, A. (2012). Affective infrastructure: Hospital landscapes of hope and failure.
Space and Culture, 15(1), 44-56. https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331211426061
Health insurance/financing
Authoritarianism
News/Media
● Briggs, Charles. 2003. “Why nation states and journalists can’t teach people to be
healthy: power and pragmatic miscalculation in public discourses on health.” Medical
Anthropology Quarterly 17(3): 287-321.
● Ewing, E. Thomas. “‘Kiss Via Kerchief’: Influenza Warnings In 1918.” Nursing Clio blog,
posted February 12 2020.
Films/Videos
● A Short History of Humans and Germs, NPR Goats and Soda
○ 3 short animated videos from NPR on the origins of disease, and how human
responses have changed throughout human history.
● How the World is Reacting to Coronavirus, New York Times News, March 13 2020.
○ An interesting visual collage that illustrates how people around the world react in
different ways to common challenges (isolation, death, fear, etc.)
● Rx for Survival: a global health challenge. 2005. PBS/Nova
○ Available as a 6-part series or single 2 hour special.
○ Companion website has many resources, including further reading and class
activities. Could provide good background to some of the underlying health
issues and infrastructures that countries were dealing with prior to the current
pandemic.
● Spillover: Zika, Ebola, and Beyond. 2016. PBS
○ From the film website, “Over the last half century, the number of spillover
diseases has increased rapidly. What's behind the rise in spillover viruses? What
can we do to stop them? And what have we learned from the ultimate
containment of Ebola?”
○ Companion website has a film guide and 3D virus models
● Unnatural Causes: is inequality making us sick? 2008. California Newsreel.
○ A film series that explores social inequities to lead to poor health outcomes.
○ Companion website has film clips, additional readings, and class activities.
● The Fight Against Viruses
○ A collection of TED talks related to viruses, pandemics, and vaccines
Podcasts
● Coronavirus: Fact vs. Fiction (series) Hosted by Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical
Correspondent.
● “Infectious Diseases Show Societies Who They Really Are.” (segment of episode) On
the Media podcast, “Our Bodies, Our Selves” episode, March 6 2020. (Audio and
transcript available online).
○ Features an interview with Frank M. Snowden is a professor emeritus of the
history of medicine at Yale and author of Epidemics and Society: From the Black
Death to the Present.
● “Medicine for the Economy.” (episode). Planet Money podcast, March 13 2020.
● “When Xenophobia Spreads Like A Virus.” (episode) Code Switch podcast, March 4
2020. (Audio and full transcript available).
● “A History of Quarantine, from the Black Death to Typhoid Mary”. (4 minutes) NPR, All
Things Considered; October 27, 2014. (Audio and transcript available)
● “The Most Horrible Seaside Vacation.” (episode segment, 16 minutes) WNYC RadioLab
podcast, November 14 2011. (Audio and full transcript available)
○ Discusses “Typhoid Mary” and the controversies around quarantine and healthy
carriers.
Additional Resources
General resources
● Society for Medical Anthropology Special Interest Group: ARHE: Anthropological
Responses to Health Emergencies
Guest-lecture exchanges
● Anthropology guest-lecture exchange (organized by Bonnie Kaiser). Sign up on this
spreadsheet if you are able to guest-lecture remotely for a colleague who is ill,
quarantined, or care-giving.
● Global health guest-lecture exchange (organized by Bonnie Kaiser). Sign up on this
spreadsheet if you are able to guest-lecture remotely for a colleague who is ill,
quarantined, or care-giving.