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Making Things Better - a series of public lectures and seminars brought to you by UCL and The British Museum (sponsored by Novartis and The Wellcome Trust).
Date: Thurs March 9
Time: 6.30 pm
Venue: BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, The British Museum, Great Russell St, London
Public lecture -The Pharmaceutical Person: A view from Cultural Anthropology
Speaker: Professor Emily Martin
How are psychiatric conditions defined in contemporary society? What are the implications for our ideas of the person? On Thursday March 9, Professor Martin will discuss these issues with examples from contemporary medical practice in her lecture at The British Museum. All are welcome to attend.
"One of the world's most original and stimulating thinkers grappling with the cultural and social context of science and medicine today" (New Scientist)
Dr. Martin is Professor of Anthropology at New York University and the author of Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity in American Culture from the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS and The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction. She is also the author of the forthcoming Bipolar Expeditions: An Anthropology of Moods. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Social Science Research Council and as president of the American Ethnological Society.
Her research interests include religion, ideology, politics, models and explanations in social anthropology, political economy of health, gender, anthropology of science, and rationality. Emily Martin focuses particularly on analyzing the way in which scientific knowledge, in presenting itself as "natural fact", and presenting cultural beliefs and practices as part of nature - hence, uncontestably "true" - may thus impose a particular vision of hierarchical relationships (e.g. Martin, 1991).
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