We are pleased to announce a workshop to assist younger generations in developing critical research approaches that can be used to inform and to problematize public health research, policies, and programming in Africa. We also will use the workshop as a starting point to push the science of public health interventions in new directions, ones that are more inclusive of …
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International conference: Triage, sorting and selection in medicine––Logics, practices, values. 19-20-21 November 2012
International conference
“Triage, sorting and selection in medicine. Logics, practices, values”
19-20-21 novembre 2012
Université Paris Diderot
Amphithéâtre Buffon 15 rue Hélène Brion, 75013 Paris
Colloque organisé avec le soutien de l’Institut Universitaire de France, du Centre Georges Canguilhem, de l’Institut des Humanités de Paris, du laboratoire SPHERE (UMR 7219) et du Collège d’Etudes Mondiales – Chaire Anthropologie et santé
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On Concept Work
The most recent edition of Cultural Anthropology is dedicated to Writing Culture as an episode in the history of anthropological thought. George Marcus (2012) provides one of two vistas of the relation of Writing Culture to experiments and experiences in anthropology today.
He writes in his abstract, “Fieldwork today requires a kind of collaborative concept work that …
Special Issue: Body & Society, “Medicine, Bodies, Politics: Experimentation and Emergence”
In what seems a season of special issues, Body & Society has a special double issue (Sept. and Dec. 2012) entitled “Medicine, Bodies, Politics: Experimentation and Emergence”. Editors Mike Michael and Marsha Rosengarten’s extensive introduction alone makes the issue valuable, to say nothing of the compelling six articles and afterward that follow it.
The following are the abstracts for …
Broadsheets: Run-Up to the 2012 AIDS Conference
Broadsheets will keep track of and report on the International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) in Washington D.C. between July 22-27. Reports will rely upon the chatter around the venue, and circulating news in social and popular on-line media. We will specifically pay attention to the presence of the organizations whose websites we have been tracking.
Starting with them, tracked sites …
New Series on the Social Dynamics of Biomedical Prevention on Transcriptions
This article is part of the series: Social Dynamics of Biomedical Prevention
In the context of a growing emphasis on biomedical approaches to HIV prevention, we are seeking contributions to a new series that aims to examine the increasing biomedicalisation of HIV prevention. We are particularly interested to include contributions on the role of social research in relation to the impacts and effectiveness of implementation of biomedical technologies. As Treatment as Prevention …