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    "title": "Making Sense of a Pandemic through Trauma-Informed Pedagogy and the Value of Medical Anthropology",
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    "abstract": "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.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Medical anthropology"
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        {
            "word": "medical sociology"
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        {
            "word": "COVID-19 pandemic"
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        {
            "word": "explanatory models"
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        {
            "word": "Medicalization"
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        {
            "word": "structural violence"
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            "word": "trauma-informed pedagogy"
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        {
            "first_name": "Shelly",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Yankovskyy",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Valdosta State University",
            "department": "None"
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    "date_submitted": "2021-10-15T23:20:47+02:00",
    "date_accepted": "2021-10-15T23:20:47+02:00",
    "date_published": "2023-08-15T02:14:10+02:00",
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