FINAL ESSAY Assignment | Online Assignment

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE FINAL ESSAY
Read the book Our most troubling madness: Case studies in schizophrenia across cultures. In
an 1800-2000 word essay, provide a report on and analysis of the book using the following
framework (that is, be sure to address the following points in your essay):
•What is the main goal or objective of this book? (guideline: 100 words)
•Choose three of the case studies, describe them briefly, and identify/explore how they
address this main goal or objective. (guideline: 250 words each = 750 words)
•What do the editors conclude about the experience of schizophrenia based on the
themes/patterns they discern across their case studies? What are some of their
recommendations for how to help people with schizophrenia based on their conclusions? (500
words)
•What do you discern as a possible critique of these conclusions and recommendations based
on your reading of the case studies and any other material we have covered in class? For
example, do you think their conclusions and recommendations are warranted based on the
ethnographic material provided? Why or why not? Could other conclusions be drawn? If so,
what would they be? What other readings/perspectives you have covered in the course could
be brought to bear on assessing their arguments? These are just examples of ways of thinking
about your critique. (guideline: 500 words)
HOW TO PRESENT YOUR FINAL ESSAY
APA format is to be used for this essay. Provide in-text references when you are
paraphrasing or referring to material from the book. If you refer to material from the same
source repeatedly throughout a paragraph, it will suffice to put an in-text reference to that
material at the end of the paragraph (rather than after every sentence).
Try to keep direct quotes to a minimum, but if they are used, in-text references would look
like this:
In his foreword to Our Most Troubling Madness, medical anthropologist Kim Hopper
contends that understanding better how culture shapes recovery in other parts of the
world can help us design better treatment where we reside. As he puts it “better
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understanding of how culture shapes prospects of recovery there will have implications for
treatment here” (Hopper, 2016, p. xii).
The listing in the reference list would look like this:
Hopper, K. (2016). Foreword. In T. M. Luhrmann & J. Marrow (Eds), Our most troubling
madness: Case studies in schizophrenia across cultures (pp. xi-xiii). Berkeley, CA: University
of California Press.
Your assignments must be double spaced, one-inch margins all around, 12-pt font. Do not
exceed the 2000-word limit (this does not include the references).
Page one is a cover page that clearly indicates the title of your essay, your name, your
student number, and your e-mail. .
The last page of your assignment is a separate page that has your short reference list in
APA style.
▪Save your essay as a Word doc (not .pdf) with the following file name: Lastname_Final
Assignment