10. the politics of medicine
P o l i t i c a l ma r c h o f p h y s i c i a n s i n P a r i s ,
F a l l 2010. P h o t o b y A l g i s K a s n i u n a s
15. Prof. Cameron Hay-Rollins
Conducts research on:
Dimensions of culture that
impact health and medical
decision making
Biocultural processes of
sickness and decision
making
Healer-patient
relationships
PhD Emory University,
Chronic illness 1998; MA Emory
Health disparities University, 1992; BA
Resilience and suffering Grinnell College, 1988
16. Think for a moment
about the last time
you or a loved one
was ill. By the end
of this course, you
will have new
insights into the
ultimate questions
of illness:
Why Me?
Why now?
ATH 348
Introduction to Medical
Anthropology
18. ATH
378
Doctors,
Clinics
Explore the and
biocultural
makings of
Epidemics
contemporary
medical practice
and understand
why there is often
tension in doctor-
patient relations
19. ATH 428: Anthropology of Women’s Health
How do women respond to
cultural ideals about their
bodies and what impact do
those ideals have on their actual
health?
The highlight of the semester
is a formal poster event where
students present their research
on an aspect of women’s health
in the modern world.
20. Global health is As a team, students
ATH 448 the study of
develop an innovative
grant proposal
illness and explaining the
Developing health as a complex issues of a
consequence of student-chosen global
Solutions bio-cultural
health problem and
propose a culturally
in Global processes that appropriate and
are both local logistically viable
Health and global. intervention to
address it.
21. WHAT DO MIAMI
STUDENTS
DO WITH A
BACKGROUND IN
MEDICAL
ANTHROPOLOGY?
Become Researchers
Go to Medical School
Pursue Public Health Careers
Go to Graduate School
…and Other Cool Things
22. Become Researchers
Finishing his BA at
Miami in 2010,
Nathan Devore
took a job as
Research Assistant
working in the
Transdisciplinary
Research in
Energetics and
Colon Cancer
Neoplasia Study at
Case Western
Reserve University.
23. Become Researchers
Graduating in 2012,
anthropology major
Meghen Matta is
working as an
Ethnographic
Researcher at the
Past Foundation in
Columbus.
24. After
graduating from
Miami in 2010,
Aubrey Brink
attended
Medical Student
at the
University of
Cincinnati.
Go to Medical School
25. Graduating from
Miami in 2010,
anthropology
major Michelle
Fakler attended
medical school
at at Case
Western
Reserve
University.
Go to Medical School
26. Work in Public Health
Graduating in 2011,
Ryan Cook spent a
year teaching
English in China
before starting his
Masters in Public
Health degree at
Indiana University.
27. Work in Public Health
Anthropology
major Sarah
McKasson
graduated in
2010, then
studied for her
Masters in
Public Health
degree at Tulane
University.
28. Work in Public Health
2009 graduate
Allison Kernohan
completed her
Masters in Public
Health degree at
Emory University,
and now works for
CARE at the
Centers for
Disease Control in
Atlanta, GA.
29. Work in Public Health
Kerry Logan,
who graduated
from Miami in
2010, was
accepted to the
Masters in
Public Health
degree program
at DePaul
University.
30. Graduate School in Anthropology
After graduating in
2009, Hannah
Wohltjen
completed her MA
in anthropology
from the University
of Kentucky and
began a Master’s in
Public Health at
George Washington
University.
31. Do other exciting things
Anthropology
undergraduate Valerie
Gascon graduated in
2010, then trained as
a Chiropractor.
