Shaping our Science: Medical Anthropology, Interdisciplinarity and Public Space
Saturday 3rd July 2010
This is a Student Workshop of the Medical Anthropology Student Network of the EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists) and the Oxford University Anthropological Society.
As medical anthropologists, we have carved a distinct niche in the social sciences. However, the boundaries of this niche are rather malleable in the academic and non-academic worlds. Medical anthropology incorporates scholarship spanning from history to physiology, while practicing within a wide range of situations from academic research to implementing health care policies.
We seek to explore the interdisciplinary nature of medical anthropology from both perspectives of theory and practice.
• To what extent does medical anthropology cross academic disciplines?
• If we should create boundaries, where should these lines be drawn?
• What is the academic identity of a medical anthropologist?
• Questions similar to these can be raised when the anthropologist shifts to practice.
• What is the role of medical anthropologist in society?
• How, if desired, can medical anthropologists contribute to a bettering world? We invite students of medical anthropology and young scholars to contribute to the workshop.
Please contact the student representatives of the Medical Anthropology Student Network of the EASA:
Claire Beaudevin: beaudevin@gmail.com Susann Huschke: susann.huschke@gmail.com
Created Mon 13 Jul 2009 by Andrea Jonker-Bryce | Email to a friend