I haven’t gotten a chance to read the second link yet, I will do so in a little bit, but I thought that I would share this to explain why I am so delighted with this conversation.
I have a special professional interest in the anthropology of vaccination and disease eradication, but especially in traditional practices around natural immunization. This conversation is easily something that I can envision integrating into the version of this curriculum that I am currently making for medical students.
In the interim, Bunny, you might enjoy this curriculum I wrote called Politics, People and Pathogens. There is some stuff in there on land use and allocation, but I think you would really enjoy the Tropica Medicine History, Vaccination, Eradication and Ethnomedicine sections. The course guide explains all the readings and activities and the powerpoints all have my lecture notes embedded.
If I incorporate any of this material, I will add you to the acknowledgments sections at the end of the course guide!
Will come back after I read up a little more on this!