Encounters and Engagements: Creating New Agendas for Medical Anthropology
June 12-15th 2013
Thematic focus
Encounters and engagements – it is hard to imagine anthropology of any sort without them, and they are central to the practices and concerns of
Obesity, eating disorders, and the media: An interdisciplinary workshop
Wednesday 9 November 2011, 9.30am-5.30pm
St Anne’s College, University of Oxford
The rising global prevalence of obesity and eating disorders can be considered one of the top public health challenges of the 21st century. With the large volume of recent scientific research on these conditions, and the increasing number of …
This post was contributed by Svenja Matusall & Johannes Bruder.
Workshop Report “The brain, the person, and the social. Probing neuroscientific ideas and practices from STS & history of science perspectives”, Zurich, 23.-25.06.2011
Looking in any daily newspaper of the (Western) world, we will see shiny images of active brains, showing “red spots of greed”, the differences between Democrat and …
The following call for papers is being circulated by Vincent Duclos (U Montreal) and Victor Braitberg (U Arizona):
Materializing Presence, Configuring Proximity:
Engagements with Medical Tele-Technology and Emergent Care Practices
Health care is being transformed by a proliferation of screens, interfaces and networks that constitute emerging infrastructures of care …
This call for papers is being circulated by Dominique Béhague and Junko Kitanaka
Co-organizers:
Dominique Béhague, Senior Lecturer, Anthropology, Brunel University, UK
Junko Kitanaka, Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Keio University, Japan
This two-part …
This announcement is being circulated by Eric Racine (IRCM):
…Dear colleagues,
We are delighted to announce that the call for abstract (talks, panels, posters) for Brain Matters 2, an international conference in neuroethics, is now open. The deadline for submission is