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9.14.21 readings
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- · Podcast. “Crazy Like Us: Are Americans Exporting Their Dysfunctions to the Rest of the World?”
o (is listening intriguing? infuriating? in a productive way?)
o Recommended, or for background: Ethan Watters. Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche. Free Press 2010.
o I had been thinking of assigning ch. 4 “The Mega-Marketing of Depression in Japan” and then went with the podcast. (That chapter a good link to pharma conversation too) Discuss?
o As you listen, please recall your reading from the first class, parts of the Intro to “Postcolonial Disorders: Reflections on Subjectivity in the Contemporary World.”