The conference on structural competency organized and hosted by Jonathan Metzl and Helena Hansen, and held at the NYU’s Department of Social and Cultural Analysis on March 23rd 2012, proved to be enormously successful. The conference was an experiment on the part of Hansen and Metzl to generate a new conversation among doctors, clinicians, urban planners, social theorists …
Tag Archives: Political economy of health care
Reports from the Second Annual Health in Transition Conference
The second annual Health in Transition (HiT) Conference was held June 7-8 in Bucharest, Romania. The HiT Conference had its genesis last year thanks to the vision and dedication of Edit Szenassy, a PhD student at Charles University in Prague. She envisioned an environment where social scientists who research matters of health, illness, and medical care in Central and …
Therapeutic Encounters: Emerging research in health and medicine in Eastern Europe
Indiana University is soliciting proposals from junior scholars for participation in an interdisciplinary workshop, “Therapeutic Encounters: Emerging research in health and medicine in Eastern Europe,” to be held April 13-14, 2012 at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN.
Eligibility: Graduate students and recent PhDs from any field who are engaged in health- and medicine-related research in Eastern Europe. We particularly invite …
Mental Health Care in Ukraine: Twenty Years after the Soviet Union
This article is part of the series: Twenty years after the Soviet Union
In the summer of 2008 I had the pleasure of beginning my anthropological dissertation fieldwork in Ukraine. I was particularly interested in the mental health field. I had much experience with mental health issues in the U.S. through my Master’s thesis at the University of South Florida where I interned with the National Mental Health Association. I had also worked …
Health and medicine 20 years after the Soviet Union
This article is part of the series: Twenty years after the Soviet Union
Nearly two decades have now passed since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Over the next several months we will be running a series of articles which consider a specific issues related to health and medicine in the former Soviet Union. The articles comprising “20 Years After the Soviet Union” will highlight research by anthropologists and other social …
50 Years of Medical Sociology
The Journal of Health and Social Behavior recently ran a supplemental issue dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the journal and of the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. The issue is made up of a series of reviews about key issues in medical sociology written by some of the leading scholars in the sub-discipline. Aside from being …