For every topic, you will answer each question below in no fewer than three sentences and no more...

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For every topic, you will answer each question below in no fewer than three sentences and no more than 2 answers blank.

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Who is the author? What kind of disciplinary background are they coming from (e.g. anthropology, history, sociology, medicine?) Who is it written for? How can you infer the audience?

What is the main argument and the goal of the writing? How would you explain the main point of the article to the class?

Identify the author’s thesis. What are the key concepts used? Are the concepts challenged or invented? Meaning, is the author presenting their own/new theory? Or are they critiquing or adding to someone else’s established theory?

What larger structure(s) does this article fit into? In other words, what social, political, economic, cultured, medical, ideological structure is this article commenting on?

What is the article or chapter about empirically? What is being studied as the object? Where are the events and people geographically situated? What is the scale of the analysis? (e.g. nation, city, region, institution, person?) When did the study take place? Is there an explicit comparison? If so, what? Is there an implicit comparison? If so, what?

What methods were used in collected data? (ethnography, interviews, statistics, textual analysis, archival research) Does the data look at what people do, say, or think? How was the data analyzed? What assumptions- of the author or the society- shaped the inquiry? What core values are assumed, especially values related to health and illness? What data would strengthen the text?

Discuss a passage (cite page number) that inspired or frustrated you. Write a paragraph between 200-300 words discussing the passage and describing how it resonated with other course content.

If you take one thing away from the text, what would that be?

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Azra S · Accepted Answer

One Health
1. Who is the author? What kind of disciplinary background are they coming from (e.g. anthropology, history, sociology, medicine?) Who is it written for? How can you infer the audience?
Meike Wolf is a medical anthropologist. He specializes in the field of medical and cultural anthropology. The article has been written for medical researchers in all fields in the authors attempt to advocate ‘one health’ contexts that encompass all fields of health sciences.
2. What is the main argument and the goal of the writing? How would you explain the main point of the article to the class?
The main argument and goal of writing this paper has been to argue and establish that the reason for human animal disease interaction are social factors and that these social factors are important to understanding the cause, spread and handling of infectious diseases. This point can be explained to the class through the fact that one single element is usually not responsible for a disease, instead multiple factors are. For example, spread of an infectious disease like TB depends on both the exposure to TB virus as well as the immunity of the person exposed.
3. Identify the author’s thesis. What are the key concepts used? Are the concepts challenged or invented? Meaning, is the author presenting their own/new theory? Or are they critiquing or adding to someone else’s established theory?
“I will argue that it is not enough to simply recognize the linkages among humans, animals, and environments but, rather, in order to fully capture the impact of these linkages, they must be situated and contextualized” (Wolf, 5-11).

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