Verschiedene therapeutische Praktiken des Selbst, welche zur Förderung von Gesundheit, Glücksempfinden und seelischem Wohlergehen eingesetzt werden – beispielsweise self-help, Coaching, Kurse für spirituelles Wachstum, self-tracking sowie alternative und komplementäre Therapieformen –, sind weltweit populärer geworden. Um diese Praktiken herum sind…
Embryos on the Move: Transnational Networks of Surrogacy
Gestational surrogacy is a reproductive technology where embryos are produced ‘in-vitro’ in a laboratory and subsequently implanted into the uterus of a woman – the gestational surrogate or surrogate mother – who has agreed to carry the child to term…
Medical Technologies and Infrastructure: Exploring Im/Mobility and Dis/Connectivity in “Global Health”
There are numerous approaches to defining “Global Health” (Brown, Cueto, and Fee 2006; Farmer et al. 2013; Fassin 2012; Janes and Corbett 2009), a phenomenon that Arthur Kleinman (2010: 1518) considered to be “more a bunch of problems than a…
CfP for Workshop „Embodied Belonging: In/Exclusion, Health Care, and Well-Being in a World in Motion“ (Berlin, GAA Conference 2017)
The Work Group Medical Anthropology organizes the workshop „Embodied Belonging: In/Exclusion, Health Care, and Well-Being in a World in Motion“ at the German Anthropological Association’s Biannual Conference on the theme titled „Belonging: Affective, Moral and Political Practices in an Interconnected…
Finding Peace on a Psychiatric Ward with Yoga: Report on a Pilot Anthropological Study in Pondicherry, India
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…
„Eine Ästhetik für das Miteinanderleben“: Elisabeth Hsu über Chinesische Medizin, akademische Lernkulturen und die Rolle der (Medizin-)Ethnologie im Kontext gesellschaftlicher Transformationen
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…