University of California Los Angeles Lissa A Story About Medical Promise Paper

PAPER: Choose 3 of the following terms on the list and write a 3-5 page essay, (double-spaced, 12 point font, 1 inch margins), on how Lissa: a Story about Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution addresses these three terms through a fictionalized story in comics form, based on medical anthropological research. Make sure you define all your terms so that someone who is not in our class could follow the logic and understand you. Use textual evidence and cite your sources.

TERMS: (3 for a paper)

1. sick role as social control
2. structural violence
3. political etiology
4. commodification of the body
5. commodification of health care
6. illness narrative vs. medical disease description
7. medicalization of … (explain what is being medicalized and how)
8. social determinants of health
9. medicine and political conflict
10. contestation between ‘normal’ and ‘pathological’
11. metaphors affecting the illness experience
12. social stigma and disease
13. Neoliberalism
14. upstream vs. downstream factors
15. preemptive disease
16. social deviance
17. cultural assumptions of biomedicine
18. naturalization of inequalities
19. individual health surveillance
20. pinkwashing