In Body and Soul & NPR Podcast Codeswitch Essays
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On the first page of each essay, you must include your name and date. Also, you must give each essay an informative title.
submit your essays in one Word or PDF file; have an informational title for each essay and consecutively number the pages of the combined file.
Given that you are to use only course readings and media texts, there is NO need for a works cited/bibliography page.**** ***********Please do not use any outside sources for this essay**********************************
****Please write your responses in formal essay format, in the form of an argument. This means your essays need to have an introduction, thesis statement, supporting evidence (presented logically), and a conclusion.***********
ESSAY # I In Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination, Dr. Alondra Nelson details a little known, but consequential, health social movement. Drawing on course materials, construct an analysis of what kind of health social movement the Black Panther Party efforts represent. Be sure to consider why the Black Panther Party represents a particular kind of health social movement or not. Overall, in this essay, you must be sure to relate Nelson’s’ empirical findings & arguments with at least two additional readings/films from course materials covered over the quarter. That is, you are to create a thesis (argument) built from and that is supported by an argument/empirical details of at least two additional course readings/films).
ESSAY 2 Listen to (and/or download and read the transcript of this 19:12 minute) episode of the NPR Podcast Codeswitch: “A Physician Asks: Is Being Black Bad For Your Health? Then, drawing on course materials, and this podcast episode construct an analysis of how race matters in illness outcomes, doctor-patient relationships, and/or illness experiences. That is, in 4 – 6 pages you are to create a thesis (argument) built from and that is supported by argument/empirical details of at least two additional course readings/films).
SOURCES YOU MAY USE ONLY
C. Wright Mills, “Excerpt from The Sociological Imagination (pg. 6 – 13)
Michael Schwalbe, “Seeing the Social in the Natural” (pg. 219 – 242)
Bruce Link and Jo Phelan, “Social Conditions as Fundamental Causes of Disease” (pg. 80 – 94)
*Rachel Snow, “Sex, Gender, and Vulnerability” in The Sociology of Health & Illness: Critical Perspectives, Eds.: Peter Conrad & Valerie Leiter, pgs. 69-84.
David R. Williams and Michelle Sternthal, “Understanding Racial-ethnic Disparities in Health: Sociological Contributions,” JHSB 51: S15-S27, 2010.
David R. Williams, “Miles to Go before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health,” JHSB 53:279-295, 2012.
Film: “Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?” (Episode 1: “In Sickness and in Wealth,” 55min).
https://www.businessinsider.com/healthiest-countri…
Paul Starr, “The Social Origins of Professional Sovereignty,” The Social Transformation of American Medicine (pg. 3–17)
Paul Starr, “The Growth of Medical Authority,” in Phil Brown’s Perspectives in Medical Sociology, 475-482.
Stefan Timmermans and Hyeyoung Oh, “The Continued Social Transformation of the Medical Profession,” JHSB 51: S94-S106, 2010
>Film:“Deadly Deception” (PBS, 1993).
*James Jones, “The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment,” in Brown, 310 –320.*
Vanessa Northington Gamble,“Under the Shadow of Tuskegee: African Americans and Health Care,”American Journal of Public Health 87, no.11 (November1997): 1773-1778
