I recently came across a video of a relatively recent lecture which Ian Hacking gave at Huron University College, entitled, “The New Me: What Biotechnology may do to Personal Identity.” The short (15 min) talk — embedded below — reprises many of the issues Hacking has been dealing with for the past several years (e.g.”Ian Hacking on commercial genome-reading…
Author Archives: Eugene Raikhel
Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry special section on “The Anthropology of Pharmaceuticals”
The latest Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry includes a special section on “The Anthropology of Pharmaceuticals: Cultural and Pharmacological Efficacies in Context,” edited by Allison Schlosser and Kristi Ninnemann. The editors set out the stakes of the section in their Introduction:
“How is psychopharmaceutical efficacy defined, and by whom? How do individuals experience these drugs and interpret their effects in
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Special issue of Ethos on “Reinvigorating Dialogue between Phenomenological and Psychoanalytic Anthropologies”
The latest issue of Ethos, guest edited by Sarah Willen and Don Seeman, brings together the phenomenological and psychoanalytic approaches in the anthropology of experience — making an argument for a closer engagement between these two modes of conceptualizing subjectivity. The idea that this represents a moment of conceptual reorientation is most clearly articulated by Byron Good’s reflection on …
The 2011 SMA awards
Congratulations to everyone who won an award from the Society for Medical Anthropology or one of its interest groups in 2011! (Unfortunately we don’t have a list which includes the titles of all winning submissions):
New Millenium Book Award:
- Barbara Rose Johnston and Holly Barker, The Consequential Damages of Nuclear War: The Rongelap Report
The Eileen Basker Prize given …
In the journals and on the web in 2011
I was happy to learn that Somatosphere made the list of top 10 (really 12) anthropology blogs — the result of a survey put together by Jason Antrosio at Anthropology Report. Thanks to Jason for putting this together. We’re in great company on the list, with excellent sites such as Savage Minds, Neuroanthropology, John Hawks Weblog and …
Somatosphere in 2011: a year in review
2011 was an exciting year at Somatosphere. We completed a redesign of the site and introduced a number of new editorial features, including post series. I’d like to thank all of the editors and contributors for their hard work on the site this year. And thanks to our readers for your input and support. We’ll have a number of new …