Introduction to HIV/AIDS:
Teaching Team Members:
Prof. Paul Hamel (Health Studies/Dept of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Medicine)
Robert Reinhard (Ontario HIV Treatment Network)
Dr. Scott Rayter (Sexual Diversity Studies/English) scottrayter@yahoo.ca
Teaching Assistant:
Rebecka Sheffield rebecka@archivalobjects.com
Course readings will be available on Blackboard
January 9 - Session One: Introductory Lecture (Hamel, Rayter)
Introduction to the Course
Purpose of the Course
Marking Scheme and Expectations
An Overview - General Concepts and Areas of Consideration
Section I
January 16 - Session Two: HIV, AIDS, and Health (Reinhard)
- Immunopathogenesis of HIV/AIDS
Readings:
Fauci, Anthony S. “HIV and AIDS: 20 Years of Science.” Nature Medicine 9.7 (July 2003): 839-43.
Letvin, Norman, and Bruce Walker. “Immunopathogenesis and Immunotherapy in AIDS Virus Infections.”
Nature Medicine 9.7 (July 2003): 861-66.
Barré-Sinoussi, Françoise. “The Early Years of HIV Research: Integrating Clinical and Basic Research.”
Nature Medicine 9.7 (July 2003): 844-46.
Stevenson, Mario. “HIV-1 Pathogenesis.” Nature Medicine 9.7 (July 2003): 853-60.
Pomerantz, Roger J, and David L Horn. “Twenty Years of Treatment for HIV-1 Infection.” Nature
Medicine 9.7 (July 2003): 867-73.
Also see HIV: The Basics: http://www.aidsmeds.com/articles/WhatIsAIDS_4994.shtml
January 23: Session Three: Continued discussion of lecture I (Reinhard)
-plus a focus on opportunistic infections and treatments
-lecture readings from the first class also apply here
Jan 30: Session Four:
**TEST on Part I
Section II
Social Determinants of HIV/AIDS (Hamel)
Readings:
Marmot, M. et al. “Historical perspective: the social determinants of disease – some blossoms.” American
Journal of Public Health (2005), 4:1-4
Marmot, M. et al. “Closing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on the social determinants
of health.” Lancet (2008) 372:1661-1669
Commission on Social Determinants of Health, WHO: “Closing the gap in a generation: health equity
through action on the social determinants of health.” Final Draft, 2008
Rose G. “Sick Individuals and Sick Populations.” International Journal of Epidemiology (1985), 14:32-38
Navarro V. “What We Mean by Social Determinants of Health”. International Journal of Health Services,
39:423-441, 2009
Brandt, A. “Behavior, Disease and Health in the Twentieth-Century United States: the Moral Valence of
Individual Risk.” Morality and Health: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Allan M. Brandt and Paul
Rozin eds. (New York: Routledge, 1997), pp. 53-77.
February 6: Session Four: Poverty and Inequality as Determinants of Susceptibility to HIV/AIDS (Hamel)
Piot, Peter, et al. “Squaring the Circle: AIDS, Poverty, and Human Development.” PLoS Medicine
(2007): 1571-75.
Colecraft, Esi. “HIV/AIDS: Nutritional Implications and Impact on Human Development.” Proceedings of
the Nutrition Society (2008): 109-113.
Kalichman, Seth C., et al. “Associations of Poverty, Substance Use, and HIV Transmission Risk
Behaviors in Three South African Communities.” Social Science & Medicine 62 (2006): 1641-49.
Parker, R. “HIV and AIDS-related stigma and discrimination: a conceptual framework and implications for
action.” Social Science and Medicine, 57:13-24, 2003
Farmer , P. “An Anthropology of Structural Violence.” Sidney W. Mintz Lecture for 2001.
Galtung, J. “Violence, Peace and Peace Research.” Journal of Peace Research, 6:167-191, 1969
February 13: Session Five: Social Determinants of HIV/AIDS: International financial
Institutions and HIV/AIDS (Hamel)
Readings:
Smith, Richard D, Carlos Correa, and Cecilia Oh. “Trade, TRIPS, and Pharmaceuticals.” Lancet 373 (21
Feb. 2009): 684-91.
Lewis, S. “Context: It shames and diminishes us all” in “Race Against Time”. P.1-20
**Take-home test distributed in class (Due: Thurs, March 6, by beginning of class)
February 20 - No Class: Reading Week
February 27: Session Six: Social Determinants of HIV/AIDS: International financial
Institutions and HIV/AIDS (Hamel)
Readings:
Smith, Richard D, Carlos Correa, and Cecilia Oh. “Trade, TRIPS, and Pharmaceuticals.” Lancet 373 (21
Feb. 2009): 684-91.
Blouin, Chantal, Mickey Chopra, and Rolph der Hoeven. “Trade and Social Determinants of Health.”
Lancet 373 (7 Fe. 2009): 502-507.
Fidler, David P, Nick Drager, and Kelley Lee. “Managing the pursuit of Health and Wealth: The Key
Challenges.” Lancet 373 (24 Jan, 2009): 325-31.
**Take-home test distributed in class (Due: Thurs, March 6, by beginning of class)
Mar 6: Session Seven: AIDS Activism & Its Histories (Sheffield)
Screen United in Anger: A History of ACT UP, dir Jim Hubbard, 2012
Readings:
Sarah Schulman. Excerpt from Gentrification of the mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination. Berkley:
University of California Press, 2013.
Ann Silversides. Excerpt from AIDS activist: Michael Lynch and the Politics of Community. Toronto:
Between the Lines, 2003.
Section III: AIDS, Culture, and Representation
March 13: Session Eight: AIDS, Narrative, and Self-Representation
Guest Lecture: Dr. Allan Peterkin (Clinic for HIV-Related Concerns, Dept of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai
Hospital)
Read: A D Peterkin and A A Prettyman, "Finding A Voice: Revisiting the History of Therapeutic Writing"
J Med Ethics; Medical Humanities 35 (2009): 80–88.
Dr. Peterkin will talk about his work with the Therapeutic Writing Group for People with HIV/AIDS. We will also hear from past participants in the program and contributors to the book that came out of this work, Still Here: A Post-Cocktail AIDS Anthology, Ed. Allan Peterkin and Julie Hann. I have put Still Here on reserve in the UC Laidlaw library if you want to read any of the material before class or you want to use it as one of your sources for the final essay.
*Essay questions posted on Blackboard*
March 20: Session Nine: The Politics of Representation (Rayter)
Screen Living Proof: HIV and the Pursuit of Happiness, dir. Kermit Cole, 1993
Read: Marita Sturken, "AIDS and the Politics of Representation," from Tangled Memories: The Vietnam
War, The AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering (Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1997).
March 27: Session Ten: Witnessing as Cultural Practice (Rayter)
Screen Silverlake Life: The View from Here, dir. Tom Joslin and Peter Friedman, 1993
Read: G. Thomas Couser, selections from Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability and Life Writing
(Madison, WI: U of Wisconsin P, 1997)
Apr 3: Memory and Memorialization (Rayter)
Screen Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, dir. Robert Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman, 1989
Read: Marita Sturken, "Conversations with the Dead: Bearing Witness in the AIDS Memorial Quilt," from
Tangled Memories
Read: Peter S. Hawkins, “Naming Names: The Art of Memory and the AIDS Project Names Quilt” Critical
Inquiry 19.4 (Summer 1993): 952-79.
**Friday, April 11: Essay Due
Plagiarism
From the Code of Behaviour on Academic Matters:
It shall be an offence for a student knowingly:
d) to represent as one’s own any idea or expression of an idea or work of another in any academic examination or term test or in connection with any other form of academic work, i.e., to commit plagiarism.
Wherever in the Code an offence is described as depending on “knowing,” the offence shall likewise be deemed to have been committed if the person ought reasonably to have known.
http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/plagsep.html
Remember that two of the three assignments for this course are done in class, so major discrepancies between the quality of the essay and the test and exam will be easy to spot. Should there be any question about the legitimacy of your essay, you will be expected to have a meeting with me and other person, produce all notes and drafts, and be prepared to answer specific questions about your work. |