Making Sense of a Pandemic through Trauma-Informed Pedagogy and the Value of Medical Anthropology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2641530 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shelly Yankovskyy (Valdosta State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2023-08-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Teaching and Learning Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2641-4260 • E-ISSN: 2641-4260 |
| Publisher | California Digital Library (CDL) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5070/t36155068 |
| OpenAlex | W4385829668 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 15 |
It is difficult to describe the experience of living through the COVID-19 global pandemic while simultaneously teaching anthropology and sociology courses to undergraduates. My students and I experienced together not just the fear of sickness and death, but also social issues in the U.S. made more visible by the pandemic, such as racial tensions, challenges related to access to health care, and consequences of the social determinants of health. The “normal” that many are hoping we return to was heavily shaped by neoliberal policies that conceptualize health and illness as well as personhood in particular ways, such as through defining social problems as medical in nature and using medicine as a form of social control. The issue for us as educators, however, is that stress, depression, and anxiety are normal reactions to real conditions that we are all experiencing, albeit with strikingly different foundations and resources. In this paper I reflect on my own experiences in the classroom and discuss how I incorporated theoretical constructs of intersectional trauma, or trauma-informed pedagogy. I will showcase how I teach students these concepts through medical anthropology. I highlight how these concepts have helped students make sense of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and I argue that this framing is useful for understanding other crises for students and professors alike
Disease · Health care · Medical anthropology · Pandemic · Pedagogy · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of health and illness · Disaster Response and Management · Empathy and Medical Education · Health and Conflict Studies · Medicine · Psychology
Culture, Illness, and Care
The Syndemics and Structural Violence of the Covid Pandemic
Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine
Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More
The Politics of Covid Vaccine Hesitancy and Opposition
Mama Lola
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies
Trauma and Other Historians
Medicine as an Institution of Social Control
The Institutional Betrayal and Bureaucratic Violence of Higher Education
Disciplined Hearts
Prophecy and the near future
The Shifting Engines of Medicalization
Income Inequality and Social Dysfunction
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |