Monthly Archives: October 2012

The article “When Wounds and Corpses Fail to Speak: Narratives of Violence and Rape in the Congo,” discusses the limitations that exist among the human rights discourse and the need to examine the rhetoric, styles, and genres of the discourse … Continue reading →

The article “Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in U.S. Soldiers Returning from Iraq” discusses one of the most pressing concerns in America today: the long-term effects of returned U.S. soldiers with PTSD and other psychiatric symptoms. Their study found that out … Continue reading →

In his article, “Water Flowing North of the Border: Export Agriculture and Water Policies in a Rural Community in Baja California” Christian Zlolniski uses an ethnographic analysis of how the production of fresh water in the San Quintin Valley in … Continue reading →

This weeks readings discuss the emerging field of Epigenetics, the study of how people’s experience and environment affect the function of their genes. Specifically, these readings talk about nutritional epigenetics such as the article by Hannah Landecker, “Food as Exposure.” … Continue reading →

In chapter 6 of “Awakening Hippocrates,” Edward O’Neil discusses the forces of inequality that continue to keep the lives of the poor unchanged. In this chapter he discusses how financial forces foster unequal and unsustainable world economic order. The homeless … Continue reading →

He did a terrible thing, but he was sick. Where is the compassion? Is this the best our society can do?” – Yvonne Panetti, mother of Scott Panetti, mentally ill man on death row in Texas (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, December … Continue reading →

In chapter three of his book, Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault argues that modern society increasingly controls and administers the docile subject through individualization. He uses the metaphor of the Panopticon, a circular prison designed by the 19th century English reformer … Continue reading →