Health and Illness in African Worlds COURSE CALENDAR

MONDAYS

WEDNESDAYS

PART ONE: Beginnings and the Big Picture
	6 Jan An Introduction and Previews Film: "New York: The Hidden African City "
11 Jan Mini-Lecture: Key Concepts and Frames Ngoma and diaspora Syncretism and translation Internalizing and externalizing medical systems Colonized bodies, or race, empire and biomedicine Prepare in advance for discussion: Relate the conversation between Livingstone and the rainmaker to reading and film, "New York: The Hidden African City" Read before class: Ps (primary Source) #1: Livingstone's conversation with the rainmaker Reynolds, ch. 1, "The Training of Traditional Healers," 1-23 Who was Livingstone? Consult Vaughan's index Read this week: Atlas, intro; and maps #2-4, 16	13 Jan "Ngoma" and the Household Production of Health Read: Wallman, ch. 6, "Treatment Options," 111-41 Wallman, ch. 7, "Home Treatment," 142-51 Wallman, ch. 10, "Six Women," 189-205 Atlas, maps #5-9

PART TWO: Slavery and Healing, Race and Biomedicine, 15th-19th centuries
18 Jan No class, MLK DAY: please participate	20 Jan Wealth and Health: Lemba and Nkisi in the Lower Congo Read this week: Ps #2: Reynolds, App. 2, "The Story of Chihata's Emergence as a Healer," 117-119 Thornton, Kongolese Saint Anthony, 1-58 Atlas, maps #10, 14, 15, 17
25 Jan Dreams and Sorcery, Children and Trauma Read: Reynolds, ch. 2, "Dreams and the Constitution of the Self," 25-40 Reynolds, ch. 4, "Zezuru Turn of the Screw: On Children's Exposure to Evil," 69-96 Thornton, ch. 3, "Priests and Witches in Catholic Kongo," 59-81	27 Jan Atlantic Slavery and Medicine Treponemal travels Sims' silver sutures and his slave women patients African slave doctoresses Read: Thornton, 82-128 History of Medicine and Health Colloquium: "A High Voltage Sensitivity: A History of African Americans and Birth Control" Vanessa Northington Gamble University of Wisconsin-Madison 7:00 PM, Rackham Amphitheater
1 Feb Race, Science, and Travel: The "Hottentot Venus" Read: Thornton, 129-98 Vaughan, Curing their Ills, ch. 1, "Discourse, Subjectivity, and Difference," 1-28	3 Feb Discussion: Medical Systems and Translation: A Slave Ship and a "Miscarriage" Read before class: Ps packet: compiled by Dr. Sharla Fett
8 Feb Concluding Discussion: Making sense of Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita's story Was this primarily a Christian Movement or a form of ngoma? How significant were her age, gender, dreams? How was trauma, race, or slavery involved? Read before class: Thornton, finish before class, 199-214, Ps # 3: Appendix in Thornton, "Salve Antoniana," 215-220	10 Feb Mid-term exam

PART THREE: Colonial Medicine, Public Health, and "Development" (in five segments)
1. Empire, epidemics, and tropical medicine
15 Feb Colonial Conquest and the Emergence of Tropical Medicine Read: Vaughan, "Rats' Tails and Trypanosomes: Nature and Culture in Early Colonial Medicine," 29-54 Atlas, maps # 16 and 18	17 Feb Missionary Medicine Read: Vaughan, "The Great Dispensary in the Sky: Mission Medicine," 55-76 Atlas, map # 19
22 Feb The Fascination for Leprosy and the Social Epidemiology of TB (or, Work, Male Migration, and Illness) Read: Vaughan, "Without the Camp: Institutions and Identities in the Colonial History of Leprosy," 77-99 Atlas, maps # 44, 50, 55	24 Feb Colonialism and Madness Read: Vaughan, "The Madman and the Medicine Men: Colonial Psychiatry and the Theory of Deculturation," 100-29
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2. STDs, fertility, and obstetrics. Public health and communications
8 Mar Colonial Syphilis Panics and the Politics of STDs Research before AIDS Film: "The Deadly Deception: The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male" 1993, 60 min., 23862-H Read: Vaughan, "Syphilis and Sexuality: the Limits of Colonial Medical Power," 129-54	10 Mar Childbirth and Pronatalism in Colonial Africa Read before class: Ps packet: Hunt, "Childbirth Episodes"
15 Mar Puberty and Fertility Rituals: Contests over their Medicalization, Regulation, and Representation Film: "Becoming a Woman in Okrika," 1990, 27 min., 27126-H	17 Mar Eclampsia, Pellagra, Kwashiorkor: TransAtlantic Coincidences of Race and Biology or Poverty and Malnutrition?? Papers due in class. Read: Atlas, maps # 42 and 43
22 Mar STDs since AIDS Read: Wallman, ch. 9, "Private Disease: Perception and Management of STD," 166-188 Atlas, maps # 11-12, 25, 26, 31, 46, 47	24 Mar Public Health Communications across Time: From Colonial Film to a TBA Flick and AIDS Media Film: "Nyamakuta," 1989, 32 min., 27120-H Clip from: "Images of HIV/AIDS around the World," 1994, 28 min., 27246-H Read before class: Vaughan, "`Seeing is Believing': Colonial Health Education Films and the Question of Identity," 180-199 Wallman, ch. 11, "Community Life II: Participants Views (The video project)," 206-25 Atlas, maps # 20 and 22

3. War, trauma, and healing
29 Mar Zimbabwe's Chimurenga II: Up-Close Film: "Flame" Read: Reynolds, "Introduction," xiii-xxxix Reynolds, ch. 3, "Children of Tribulation: The Need and the Means to Heal War Trauma," 41-69 Atlas, Maps #23, 24, 25, 45	31 Mar Discussion: Children in Trauma, Children Healed Read before class: Ps packet: Reynolds, appendixes 3-16, pp. 120-69

4. Youth, post-colonial madness, and botched abortions
5 April Illicit Abortions and Unwanted Pregnancies: A Crisis of Sugar Daddies?? Read: Sympathetic Undertaker, first half Atlas, maps # 30, 48, 49, 56, 57, 58	7 April Discussion: How is the Sympathetic Undertaker about ALL the themes and concepts of this course? Read before class: Sympathetic Undertaker, finish the book

5. Children and healing
12 April AIDS, Kids, and Orphans Film: "Everyone's Child" (83 min.) Read: Reynolds, ch. 5, "On Herbs, Healing, and Healers," 97-115	14 April Moms and Kids Producing Health Read: Wallman, ch. 8, "Children's Illnesses: Mothers' definition and management of `serious enough' symptoms," 152-165

PART FOUR: Conclusion
19 April Review Read: Wallman, "Introduction," esp. pp. 8-16 Vaughan, Conclusion: "The Changing Nature of Biomedical Discourse on Africa," 200-07	Ho-hum.
FINAL EXAM: Tuesday, 27 April, 10:30-12:30