Introduction Care is an intrinsic part of ordinary everyday life and a key foundation of social belonging. Encompassing both social practices and emotional ties (Drotbohm & Alber 2015), care defines and creates relationships and, according to the new kinship studies,…
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…
EthnologInnen in Deutschland haben es gut: Sie müssen keine Ethikgenehmigung für ihre Feldforschungen einwerben oder befürchten, dass ihre Forschung als „unethisch“ gilt, wenn sie nicht das Begutachtungsverfahren einer Ethikkommission durchlaufen hat. Damit unterscheidet sich die Ethnologie von den Medizin- und…
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,…