In June 2011, Professor Arthur Kleinman (Harvard University) visited the Freie Universität Berlin and the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. It was one of Arthur Kleinman’s first visits to Germany since 1988, the year he attended an international workshop on the “Anthropologies of…
June 2005: It is the annual end of year examination period in Al-Qasr Al-Aini Medical School in Cairo when some students in their clinical years have to carry out their practical examinations next to the bedside. Outside of the medical…
This photo essay discusses the interactions between international and national non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and governmental organizations on the one hand, and local populations and people with albinism on the other, in Tanzania. From the mid-2000s onward, international attention started to…
Sufism in Berlin and Material Healing When little spots of roadside space are claimed, memorials constructed and maintained, mourning rituals performed, the separated space defended and protected, the secular made sacred, and public space privatized, then a place is made…
„Was ich mir wünschen würde ist eine gleiche Behandlung wie ein deutscher Assistenzarzt, die werden jedoch ganz offensichtlich und gar nicht elegant bevorzugt. Im Endeffekt werden ausländische Ärzte nicht zum Weiterbilden nach Deutschland geholt, sie suchen keine Assistenzärzte, sie suchen…
The call for greater consideration to be paid to “slow research” in the field of “global health” (Adams et al. 2014) highlights the need for dialogue regarding the position of ethnographic practice within public health research generally. In this blog,…