ANT 415: Medical Anthropology

Instructions: Create a short slideshow on PowerPoint with images, and text, including parenthetical citations for all notes from course materials. Create a VoiceThread comment on each of your slides (as appropriate), in which you narrate the presentation. Share with us the what, when, how, and why of the event or news article you are presenting. Tell us how it relates to the issues (or a particular issue) pertaining to our class. And finally, build a case for how we should think/act/or feel about it. This is your chance to take something that is important to you and make it important to us. The purpose of these Contemporary Reflections is to get you to attend to current events in light of the material for this course AND to give you an opportunity to bring your own interests and insights to our discussions. Make it personal. Show me how you are investing in this class. Ideally, you will draw your topic from news media you regularly access (newspaper, radio, television, web), a blog you regularly read, something posted on a social media site you use, or a personal experience. Once you have a topic in mind, do some additional reading or background research to fill out your understanding of the issue. However, if you are having trouble finding a topic, you may find the Health section on NPR.org a useful starting point: http://www.npr.org/sections/health/ If you do find a topic this way, try to find some way to connect it to your own life or to what your own community is talking about, in addition to making a clear link to the course. Save your VoiceThread with your last name and the assignment name. 

Requirements: 

Your presentation must have the following (on a minimum of 6 SLIDES): ®bsp;

Introductory or Title Slide (1 minute) (1 SLIDE) o Make a PowerPoint slide, including the title of your Presentation (your own title; not ¡rrative Advocacyl plus any images you wish to include o Narrate the slide with a short introduction to your topic o Make sure to summarize the experience or news article you will draw on as well as what you plan to cover in the remaining parts of the presentation ®bsp;

Material Slides (3-4 minutes) (3-4 SLIDES) o Clearly indicate where and how you learned about this topic and what led you to focus on this particular event/experience/encounter for this assignment (1 SLIDE) o Indicate the connections you are making between the contemporary event and the course (here, you must draw from at least one of our required readings* and may also reference films and discussion forums) (At least 1 SLIDE) o Make your case! Tell us what you think, and make a persuasive case for what we should think or what action we (or others) should take in response to this issue (1-2 SLIDES). ®bsp;

Concluding Slide (1 minute) (1 SLIDE) o In a final slide, recap what you want to leave us with o Summarize what you think we can learn (or what you have learned) from the event, experience, or encounter you have presented o How would you like us to draw on this learning, going forward? ®bsp;

Bibliography (1 SLIDE) o Bibliographic list of the references consulted  

*Singer, M., Baer, H.A., Long, D., & Pavlotski, A. 2020. Introducing Medical Anthropology: A Discipline in Action. 3rd Edition. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers USE THIS AS A REQUIRE READING REFERENCE