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Date
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Class Topics and Reading Assignments
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1/18
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Introductions
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1/20
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Class Covenant and Review of materials on Blackboard
and my course
web site
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1/25
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Defining Health, Illness, Culture and
Religion
- Galanti,
Caring for Patients from Different Cultures, chapter 1 (1-19)
- Clifford Geertz, “Religion as a Cultural System,” in Interpretation
of Cultures (Basic Books 1977), 87-125 (in notebook and on
electronic reserve). (Click here for
questions to help guide your reading of Geertz.)
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1/27
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Religion and Healing
- Martin Marty,
"Religion and Healing: The Four Expectations," in Barnes and Sered, 487-504
- Galanti,
Caring for Patients from Different Cultures, chapter 4 (50-63)
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2/1
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Health, Medicine, and Meaning
- David Kinsley, "The
Ideology of Modern Medical Culture," in Health, Healing, and
Religion, 168-184 (in notebook and on electronic reserve)
- Horace
Miner, "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema" American Anthropologist (on
Blackboard).
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2/3
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The Faith Factor in Healing
- Jeff Levin, God,
Faith, and Health: Exploring the Spirituality-Healing Connection. chapter 1.
- (Learning Covenants
Due)
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2/8
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Religious Groups Encountered: Mainline
Christian
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Religious Traditions & Health Care
Decision (white notebook) (Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Presbyterian, Episcopal,
Lutheran, Southern Baptist, United Methodist)
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2/10
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Religious Groups Encountered: Sectarian
Christian
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Religious Traditions & Health Care
Decision (white notebook) (Assemblies of God, Church of God in Christ, Latter
Day Saints, Seventh Day Adventist, Anabaptist)
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2/15
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Religious Groups
Encountered: Western (Jewish, Islamic, and Wiccan)
- Religious Traditions
& Health Care Decisions (white notebook)
- Susan Sered, "Healing as Resistance: Reflections upon
New Forms of American Jewish Healing," in Religion and Healing
in America,
231-252. (Debbie
Friedman songs)
- Marcia Hermansen, "Dimensions of Islamic Religious
Healing in America,"
in Religion and Healing in America, 407-422.
- Grove Harris,
"Healing in Feminist Wicca," in Religion and Healing in America,
253-263.
- J. Gordon Melton,
"Wicca,"
at Religious Tolerance.Org
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2/17
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Religious Groups
Encountered: Asian (Buddhist, Hindu, and Hmong)
- Religious Traditions
& Health Care Decisions (white notebook)
- Paul Numrich, "Complementary and Alternative
Medicine in America's
'Two Buddhisms,'" Religion and Healing
in America,
343-358.
- Prakash
Desai, "Health, Faith Traditions, and South Asian Indians in North
America," in Religion and Healing in America, 423-438.
- Phua
Xiong, et. al, "Hmong Shamanism: Animist Spiritual Healing
in America's
Urban Heartland," in Religion and Healing in America,
439-454.
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2/22
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Review of Religious
Traditions and Health Care Decisions
- No reading for today
in light of exams in other classes. Review your notes from
previous class discussions. We will be reviewing
them.
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2/24
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The following readings and web sites will set
the stage for next week's class and for discussion during this class if time
permits.
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3/1
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Traditional Chinese Medicine
and Acupuncture
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3/3
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Dietary Practices/Folk
Remedies/Herbs
- Galanti,
Caring for Patients from Different Cultures, 63-75, 167-186
- This is a "show
and tell" class. Bring in the homemade remedies for illness
(cold, flu, etc.) that your family (nuclear and
extended) have used over time.
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3/8
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Saints, Faith Healers, and
Exorcism
- Robert Orsi, "The Cult of the Saints and the Reimagination of the Space and Time of Sickness in
Twentieth-Century American Catholicism," in Religion and Healing
in America,
29-48
- Gaston Espinosa,
"God Made a Miracle in My Life: Latino Pentecostal Healing in the
Borderlands," in Religion and Healing in America,
123-138.
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3/10
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Film Presentation and
Discussion (Catherine Huang)
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3/15
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Vodun and Santeria
- Karen McCarthy Brown,
"Making Wanga: Reality
Constructions and the Magical Manipulation of Power," in
Religion and Healing in America,
173-194
- Other readings TBA
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3/17
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Medical Rejections of Religious Practice
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3/22
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Religious Views of Sexuality
(Homosexuality)
- Tanya Erzen, "Sexual Healing: Self-Help and
Therapeutic Christianity in the Ex-Gay Movement," in Religion
and Healing in America,
265-280.
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3/24
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Easter Break (no class)
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3/28-4/3
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Spring Break (no classes)
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4/5
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Pain, Suffering, Theodicy
- Galanti,
Caring for Patients from Different Cultures, 41-49.
- Margaret E. Mohrmann, "Someone is Always Playing Job,"
62-79 (in notebook)
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4/7
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Film Presentation (Wit)
- C.S. Lewis, A
Grief Observed (start reading)
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4/12
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Film Presentation and Book
Discussion
- C.S. Lewis, A
Grief Observed (finish reading)
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4/14
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Care and Counseling of the Dying Person
- Guest: Sister
Kathleen, Frances House
- Daniel Callahan,
“Pursuing a Peaceful Death,” in The Troubled Dream of Life
(Georgetown University Press 2000), 187-219 (in notebook and on
Blackboard)
- Edwin DuBose, "Spiritual
Care at the End of Life" Second Opinion (April 2002)
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4/19
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Pathographies: Film Presentation
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4/21
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Film Discussion
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Karen Lebacqz, "Empowerment in the Clinical Setting"
(in blue book)
(Ritual Observance Papers Due)
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4/26
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Patient Pathographies
- David Kinsley,
"The Patient Speaks" (in blue book)
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Jerome Groopman, "Matt" (on Blackboard)
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Arthur Frank,
"The Quest Narrative" (on Blackboard)
(Final revisions for learning covenants)
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4/28
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Yoga and Healing
- "How Yoga Heals,"
from Yoga Basics
- A yoga instructor
will come to teach basic yoga techniques
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5/3
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The Physicians Assistant’s
Covenant
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5/5
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Food and Healing (Last Day of Class)
- Group of students will do a class presentation on
this topic.
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