Module ANTM101 for 2017/8
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
ANTM101: Animals, Health and Healing
This module descriptor refers to the 2017/8 academic year.
Module Aims
The aims of this module are:
1. to enable students to explore a wide range of anthrozoological interactions which relate to the health and well being of humans and/or nonhuman animals;
2. to engage in analytical cross-cultural comparison of the various ways in which humans think about and utilise nonhumans in biomedical and therapeutic contexts;
3. to engage in analytical cross-cultural comparison of the ways in which humans understand and treat the health and wellbeing of the nonhumans in their care;
4. to consider the process of self-medication (zoopharmacognosy) in human and nonhuman animals; and
5. to provide students with an opportunity to conduct their own empirical research and analysis.
| On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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| Module-Specific Skills | 1. demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of key themes and issues relating to the utilisation of nonhuman animals in biomedical and therapeutic contexts; 2. demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of key themes and issues relating to the preventative, palliative and curative care of nonhuman animals in a range of cultural contexts; 3. demonstrate a critical awareness of the implications (benefits and limitations) of utilising nonhuman animals in biomedical and therapeutic contexts; 4. demonstrate a critical awareness of the implications of zoonotic disease in relation to the anthrozoological understandings of human-nonhuman relations, as well as the ethical implications of human-nonhuman coexistences; 5. demonstrate a critical awareness of the processes and implications of zoopharmacognosy in a range of nonhuman species; |
| Discipline-Specific Skills | 6. demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the potential and actual role of anthrozoology in helping to promote the welfare of human and nonhuman subjects; 7. demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of, and ability to critically assess a selection of key theoretical debates from anthropology and cognate disciplines surrounding human interactions with nonhumans in medical and therapeutic contexts; 8. apply a range of relevant theoretical models effectively in the critical analysis of ethnographic case studies and/or empirical data; |
| Personal and Key Skills | 9. identify a coherent research question and conduct independent research to answer that question; 10. effectively communicate complex ideas in a clear, accessible and academic manner; 11. synthesise and critically analyse material from a wide range of sources; 12. present theoretically engaged and critically analytical research in accordance with the requirements of a peer-reviewed academic journal. |
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Arluke, A.B. 1988. Sacrificial symbolism in animal experimentation: object or pet? Anthrozoös 2(2): 98–117.
Bolton, M. and Dengen, C. (eds) 2010. Animals and science: from colonial encounters to the biotech industry. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars.
Caplan, P. 2000. ‘Eating British beef with confidence’: a consideration of consumers’ responses to BSE in Britain. In: P. Caplan (ed.) Risk revisited, pp. 184–203. London: Pluto.
Caplan, P. 2010. Death on the farm: culling badgers in north Pembrokeshire. Anthropology Today 26(2): 14–18.
Fine, A.H. (ed.) 2006. Handbook on animal-assisted therapy: theoretical foundations and guidelines for practice, 2nd edn. New York: Academic Press.
Fouts, R.S., Fouts, D.H. and Waters, G.S. 2002. The ethics and efficacy of biomedical research in chimpanzees with special regard to HIV research. In: in Fuentes, A.
and Wolfe, L. (eds) Primates face to face: the conservation implications of human–nonhuman primate interconnections. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Franklin, S. 2001. Sheepwatching. Anthropology Today 17(3): 3–9.
Franklin, S. 2007. Dolly mixtures: the remaking of genealogy. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Franklin, S. 1995. Science as culture, cultures of science. Annual Review ofAnthropology 24: 163–184.
Gigliotti, C. 2009. Leonardo’s choice: genetic technologies and animals. Vancouver: Springer.
Hatley, J. 2011. Blood intimacies and biodicy: keeping faith with ticks. Australian Humanities Review 50: 63–75.
Heatherington, T. 2008. Cloning the wild mouflon. Anthropology Today 24(1): 9–14.
Holmberg, T. 2008. A feeling for the animal: on becoming an experimentalist. Society & Animals 16(4): 316–335.
Lefkowitz, C., Paharia, I., Prout, M., Debiak, D. and Bleiberg, J. 2005. Animalassisted prolonged exposure: a treatment for survivors of sexual assault suffering posttraumatic stress disorder. Society & Animals 13(4): 275–295.
Lowe, C. 2010. Viral clouds: Becoming H5N1 in Indonesia. Cultural Anthropology 25(4): 625–649.
Lynch, M.E. 1988. Sacrifice and the transformation of the animal body into a scientific object: laboratory culture and ritual practice in the neurosciences. Social Studies of Science 18(2): 265–289.
Mahaney W.C. and Krishnamani R. (2003) Understanding geophagy in animals: standard procedures for sampling soil. Journal of Chemical Ecology 29(7): 1503–1523
McCardle, P., McCune, S., Griffin, J.A. and Maholmes, V. (eds) 2010. How animals affect us: examining the influences of human–animal interaction on child development and human health. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
McCorkle, C.M., Mathias, E. and Schillhorn van Veen, T. (eds) 1996. Ethnoveterinary research and development. London: Intermediate Technology Publications.
McKay, R. 2006. BSE, hysteria, and the representation of animal death: Deborah Levy’s Diary of a Steak. In: Animal Studies Group, Killing Animals. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Serpell, J.A. 1991. Beneficial effects of pet ownership on some aspects of human health and behaviour. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 84: 717–720.
Servais, V. 2005. Enchanting dolphins: an analysis of human–dolphin encounters. In: J. Knight (ed.) Animals in person: cultural perspectives on human–animal intimacies. Oxford: Berg.
Smith, J.A. and Boyd, K.M. 2002. The Boyd Group papers on the use of nonhuman primates in research and testing. Leicester: British Psychological Society.
Smuts, B. 2006. Between species: science and subjectivity. Configurations 14: 115–126.
Villbala, J.J., Provenza, F.D., Hall, J.O. and Lisonbee, L.D. 2010. Selection of tannins by sheep in response to gastrointestinal nematode infection. Journal of Animal Science 88: 2189–2198.
