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Somatosphere

Science, Medicine and Anthropology

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Url:http://www.somatosphere.net/
Author(s):Eugene Raikhel, Todd Meyers, Ann Kelly, Facebook 用戶, Erin Koch, Facebook 用戶
Language:English
Tags:science, health, anthropology
Description:A collaborative weblog covering the intersections of medical anthropology, science and technology studies, cultural psychiatry and bioethics.
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Neuroethics conference podcasts
The Dalhousie University-based Novel Tech Ethics group recently hosted a conference called Brain Matters: New Directions in Neuroethics.  You can read descriptions of the conference at the Dan...more
2009-11-24
Psychoanalytic metaphors and mythical medical realities in Claude Lévi-Strauss’s contribution to
There are few subject areas in anthropology untouched by the seminal thought of the late Professor Claude Lévi-Strauss. Though he published only two or three essays concerned expressly with medical...more
2009-11-21
Peter Benson on “Safe Cigarettes” and FDA regulation of tobacco products
In an upcoming issue of Dialectical Anthropology – already available online – Peter Benson has a very interesting article in which he
2009-11-19
Epistemological frameworks and the 'feminization' of the HIV/AIDS pandemic
The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) recently set up a new blog site called "The Fourth Wave: Violence, Gender, Culture & HIV in the 21st Century."  The site is a counterpart to a fo...more
2009-11-12
Videos of plenary presentations from the SMA conference
The videos of the plenary presentations from the Society for Medical Anthropology's September conference are now available online.  As we've mentioned before, this was a very impressive line-u...more
2009-11-11
The Berlin Wall as metaphor and diagnosis
Twenty years ago today the Berlin Wall fell (both materially and metaphorically) and state socialism in Eastern Europe entered its final period of collapse.  However, as the ample anthropologi...more
2009-11-09
In the journals
Below are some recent issues that might be of interest:In the Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, Andrea Pieroni and Maria Elena Giusti conducted a medical ethnobotanical study of the Occita...more
2009-11-08
Cultural Formulat...
Cultural Formulation: A Special Issue of Transcultural Psychiatry The latest issue of Transcultural Psychiatry is a special
2009-11-07
Claude Lévi-Strauss est mort
The sad news has just arrived that Claude Lévi-Strauss, who celebrated his 100th birthday less than a year ago, has passed away.  See the article in the New York Times here, and a series of ar...more
2009-11-03
SMA Panel: Production, Distribution and Consumption of Pharmaceuticals--South Asia Focus
In the final SMA session I will summarize, the work of three of the panelists (Roger Jeffery, Ian Harper and Stefan Ecks) adds to a long-term collective project at the Centre for International Publ...more
2009-11-02

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