本课程从跨文化的视角来观察医学。不同于偏重生物学，本课程重点集中在人类学上。学生们要学习根据不同的文化体系如何分析形形色色的医学活动。重点学习西医（生物医学），学习西医如何构建疾病、健康、人体和思维，以及它又是如何与其他的机构（国内的和国际的）发生联系的。

课程要求

除了完成所有的阅读任务（大约每周100页，除法迪曼（Fadiman）, 法默（Farmer）, 和谢珀-休斯（Scheper-Hughes）的书――他们的著作比文章更易读）以外，每周要根据其中的一篇阅读写一份随想。这可以是自由的，很短的一段，但应该是你阅读完这篇文章后自己的真实感想，而不是文章的总结或分析。另外，在本学期内，你还要就给定的主题写三篇小论文（5～8页）。本课程没有期中或期末考试。

如果因故需要延迟提交作业，必须在规定的提交日期以前得到我的允许。否则，我将不接收该作业。

本课程涉及到很多讨论的部分。上课之前，你必须根据当堂课所布置的阅读资料对讨论做好准备。每堂课都要求到场。不得无故缺席，否则以不及格论。

成绩根据以下部分来给分： 课堂讨论参与：15％； 书面的阅读感想（全部）：10％； 每篇论文：25％。 课程结束的时候每个学生要就自己的第三篇写作作业进行一个5分钟的总结，但这个不记入成绩。

每堂课要求的的阅读内容可以直接在当堂课的题目下面找到。

课程提纲包括每篇文章完整的著书目录引用，你可以从中找到引文的原始出处。更重要的是，何时提出的。

警告：剽窃

剽窃就是指把别人的东西拿来作为自己的。剽窃表现为两种形式，这两种形式都会带来严重的后果。第一种是没有经过正确恰当的引用就使用他人文章中的语句，而且意思几乎一样或者非常接近。如果你要逐句引用，光有脚注是不够的，还应该有引用记号。如果你要成段的引用他人的文章，就必须完整的写出文章的引用，包括文章出现的具体页码。另外，不要认为网络等处的资料是公开的就可以不给出完整的引用。只要是别人的作品，就不是你的，应该给出其来源的完整引用。

剽窃的第二种形式就是不经过脚注就使用别人文章里的观点。

对于本课程而言，尽管剽窃要视其恶劣程度而定，但是最大的可能就是不及格。过去，我曾经给过这样的学生不及格，而且他们还必须接受纪律委员会的审讯。

底线：对于本课程而言，剽窃是非常严重的事情。可疑的论文将被立即送到电脑检索部进行核查。

如何进行正确的文献引用，本课程的阅读材料提供了很好的例子。

This course looks at medicine from a cross-cultural perspective, focusing on the human, as opposed to biological, side of things. Students learn how to analyze various kinds of medical practice as cultural systems. Particular emphasis is placed on Western (bio-medicine); students examine how biomedicine constructs disease, health, body, and mind, and how it articulates with other institutions, national and international.

Requirements

In addition to doing all of the reading (approximately 100 pages a week, except for the Fadiman, Farmer, and Scheper-Hughes books, which are more easy to read than the articles), you will write a response to one of the readings each week. This can be a short paragraph, and informally written. It should be an actual response to the piece- your own reaction to it- not a summary or analysis. You will also write three short (5-8 pp.) papers on topics assigned during the semester. There is no midterm or final exam.

I accept no written work handed in late without having given permission prior to the date the work is due.

This course has a strong discussion component. You must come to class prepared to discuss the reading assigned for that class. Attendance is required. Do not take this course if you plan on cutting classes- you will receive a failing grade.

Grading will be based as follows: participation in class discussion: 15%; reading response write-ups (collectively): 10%; each paper: 25%. Students will present a five-minute summary of their third written assignment in class at the end of the course. These will not be graded.

The readings required for each session are found directly under the title for that day's class.

The syllabus includes each article's full bibliographic citations, to allow you to know where they originally appeared and, more importantly, when.

Warning: Plagiarism

Plagiarism, presenting someone else's work as your own, comes in two forms, both extremely serious. The first involves using the words of a source, exactly or in very close paraphrase, without proper citation. If you are citing word-for-word, it does not suffice to footnote the source; you must use quotation marks. If you are paraphrasing someone's work, you must fully cite the work, including the exact page number of the page on which the material appears. Do not think that just because work is "in the public domain," on the Net, etc., you do not need to provide a full citation. If it's someone else's work, then it's not your work and you need to fully cite the source.

The second form of plagiarism involves taking ideas from a source without footnoting the source.

Although sanctions for plagiarism in this course depend on its severity, failing the course is a distinct possibility. I have failed students in the past, and they have also had to appear before the Committee on Discipline.

Bottom line: this course takes plagiarism very seriously. Suspicious papers immediately get sent to a computer-savvy colleague.

The readings for the course provide good examples of proper citation practice.