Author Archives: Ian Whitmarsh

Announcements

Call for submissions: STM Graduate Student Paper Prize

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The Science, Technology, and Medicine interest group of the SMA is pleased to welcome submissions for the STM Graduate Student Paper Prize. This prize is awarded annually for a paper that offers an innovative anthropological approach to issues in science, technology, or medicine. These issues include:

1. How scientific research, technological transformation and professional medicine inform public health policy, popular …

Teaching Resources

Medical Governance, Culture, and Subjectivities: a Syllabus

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This is the most recent version of a graduate course in medical anthropology theory that I teach. The main caveat is that this is the second in a set of three theory courses students are required to take, so it presumes the students have already taken the first course, which covers an extensive range of contemporary medical anthropology. My hope …