Drafted on 6 June 2020 Follow us on Twitter @AGPublicAnthro and Facebook In the aftermath of the brutal police killing of George Floyd, nation-wide protests have erupted against police violence and structural anti-Black racism in the United States.…
This special section brings together a series of papers that all have their origin in contributions to the trinational conference Transfigurationen: medizin macht gesellschaft macht medizin [Transfigurations: medicine makes society makes medicine], which was convened by Swiss, German, and Austrian…
“What happens when psychoanalysis – born in Western Europe, having Franco-German and Anglo-American moorings, and in a largely Judeo-Christian milieu (i.e., with paradigms stemming from its own cultural tradition) – travels eastwards and meets a somewhat different cultural tradition” (Kumar,…
“The politics of vaccination. A global history” is a multi-faceted study of the connections between vaccination, identity (constructions and politics), political systems and resistance across time and place. The edited volume is based on the proceedings of two conferences in…
When Steven Robins delivered his inaugural lecture as a Professor of Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University near Cape Town a few years ago, he related his motivation for a career in anthropology to his biography and family background. Now Robins,…
Welche Rolle sollte das Thema „Migration“ bei der Entwicklung universeller ethischer Prinzipien in Krankenhäusern spielen? Inwiefern ist es sinnvoll, kulturelle Hintergründe der Patientinnen und Patienten bei der Umsetzung ethischer Prämissen wie Patientenautonomie und shared-decision-making mit einzubeziehen? Diesen Fragen widmen sich…