Who Cares? A Discussion on Care from Edinburgh’s Centre for Medical Anthropology

By Bridget Bradley, Sandalia Genus, Lilian Kennedy, Hannah Lesshafft and Alice Street

On 11^th May 2016 the Students of Medical Anthropology (SoMA) at University of Edinburgh, the student group within Edinburgh’s Centre for Medical Anthropology (EdCMA) held their inaugural event, a symposium entitled ‘Who Cares?’

As early career scholars in medical anthropology working across a variety of health-related contexts, we (SoMA) realised that care as a theme was present in all …

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February 17, 2016

A forum on the Zika virus

By Sudeepa Abeysinghe, Luciana Brondi, Ian Harper, Hannah Lesshafft, Lucy Lowe, Alex Nading and Ting Ting Shum

Zika is in the air.

The beginning of 2016 has seen the world thrust into another global infectious disease crisis, fanned by the politics and fear of uncertainty and media speculation. Reports of the Zika virus outbreak emerged in late 2015, and have proliferated in early 2016. Most distressing have been the headlines, and associated images, possibly linking the virus …

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Who Cares? A Discussion on Care from Edinburgh’s Centre for Medical Anthropology

A forum on the Zika virus