Efforts to address maternal health have been part of global health projects for decades, and have always mirrored the shifting political and economic interests of international development. The ongoing construction of maternal health at the global level reflects the way…
Although yoga has the explicit aim of guiding the flows of consciousness (Hartranft 2003), it was only in the last decade, and alongside the growing public interest in the discipline, that the psychiatric field paid closer attention to yoga’s relevance…
Frau Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Hsu ist Professorin am Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology an der University of Oxford. Im Sommersemester 2016 bereicherte sie als Gastprofessorin die werdenden MedizinethnologInnen an der Freien Universität Berlin. Für den Blog „Medizinethnologie.net“ sprach sie…
This three-day workshop (May 8-10, 2015) at EASTmedicine, University of Westminster, London brought together international expert physicians and scholars of Tibetan medicine – medical anthropologists, historians, ethno- and medical botanists, pharmacologists – working with and/or on Tibetan medicine, and also…