Research and Practice in Higher Education - Q&A

Research and Practice in Higher Education

 

CHAIR: ERICKSON, Pamela (UConn)

 

TAYLOR, Reyda (PKE Insights), BRUNSON, Emily K. and TAYLOR, Nicole (TX State U) The Texas Applied Anthropology Summit: Facilitating the Needs of Both Practicing and Academic Anthropologists AYALA, Armida (Kaiser Permanente) and NWACHUKU, Ijeoma (National U) When the Stakes Are High: Transitioning towards Collaboration in Research Ethics ERICKSON, Pamela (UConn) and FRANK, Cynthia (Yale U) College Students’ Changing and Stable Ideas about the Cause of Disease, 2008-2016 RAZAVIMALEKI, Bita (Independent) My Brand Is Anthropology: Traces of Anthropology in Social Services

 

ERICKSON, Pamela (UConn) and FRANK, Cynthia (Yale U) College Students’ Changing and Stable Ideas about the Cause of Disease, 2008-2016. In the 1990s I began first day in-class free listing of all causes of disease (COD) that students in my ethnomedicine classes named. A decade later, I began tracking this more formally because their responses appeared to reflect changing scientific understandings of COD. We present data from COD free lists/pile sorts for 2008-2016. Results suggest similarities across all years with the exception of the emergence and prominence of stress in the top five since 2009 and the emergence of lifestyle and obesity issues since 2012. We discuss how these data reflect changes in how medicine conceptualizes COD.

 

Session took place in Santa Fe, NM at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2017.