Zur Entlastung der Berliner Covid-19-Untersuchungsstellen hat die Charité eine App eingerichtet. CovApp bietet Menschen mit potenzieller Exposition zu Covid-19-Fällen die Möglichkeit, ihre individuelle Gefährdung fundiert einzuschätzen. Gegebenenfalls wird durch die App nach Beantwortung einiger Fragen davon abgeraten, die Untersuchungsstellen aufzusuchen.…
I had the pleasure of attending the recent conference of the German Anthropological Association (DGSKA) in Konstanz, which invited panels under an overarching theme of “The End of Negotiations?”. While there, I attended two panels which will be the focus…
For my PhD research, I spent a year doing ethnographic fieldwork in Greater Manchester, with political activists campaigning against cuts and privatisation in the National Health Service (NHS), the UK’s public healthcare system. In this blog I focus on what…
The point of departure of my fieldwork and the cornerstone of my future Master’s thesis is an event of a personal crisis. Shortly after the completely unexpected death of a close friend of my partner and me, we both tried…
In contemporary times of proliferating neoliberalization, augmenting socio-economic disparity, environmental degradation, and political struggles around identities and belonging, health and well-being are becoming increasingly fragile. Entangled economic, ecological, social, cultural, and political factors affect people’s living environments and professional worlds…
“What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet”, act 2, scene 2 “(…) But the label ‘schizophrenia’ is often toxic for those who acquire…