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> MAAH 2008 - 5th conference on Medical Anthropology At Home
>
> Medical anthropology, health care systems and the client society -
> investigating interactions of practice, power and science
>
> Call for papers
>
> Deadline for abstracts: September 1st, 2007
>
> Place of venue: Denmark, The Sandbjerg Estate - Aarhus University
> Conference Centre, Sandbjergvej 102, 6400 Sønderborg (southern
> Denmark),http://www.sandbjerg.dk/en/index.php
>
> Date: 8th of May to 11th of May 2008
>
> Introduction:
> We would like to point to medical anthropology*s growing engagement
> and cooperation with local medical institutions and medical
> research units as not only isolated approaches to research of
> health and illness, but as one leg of a triangle of interconnected
> social and scientific processes with certain consequences. The
> triangle consists of medical anthropology, the health care system
> and the client society. This triangle is made up by three powerful
> but also interdependent actors that influence each other and
> presumably exhibit a shift of balances compared with former years
> of medical anthropological research.
>
> We would like to invite papers for MAAH 2008 that address the above
> mentioned triangle of medical anthropology interacting with health
> system and client. As more specific subthemes within the triangle
> we have chosen 1) chronic illness, 2) multiple medical realities
> and 3) medical anthropology as a science undergoing changes. Papers
> addressing the overall topic or one of the subthemes are all welcome.
>
> Invited key note speakers: Susan Reynolds Whyte, professor,
> Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen University,
> Denmark Nikolas Rose, professor, London School of Economics and
> Political Science, UK Annemiek Richters, professor, Department of
> Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center,
> the Netherlands Giovanni Pizza, senior researcher, lecturer,
> Dipartimento Uomo & Territorio, University of Perugia, Italy.
> Cheryl Mattingly, professor, Department of Anthropology, USC
> College, USA
>
> Abstracts from the key note speakers will appear later.
>
> Subthemes 1) Chronic illness Chronic illness has become the
> headline of many political and medical agendas during the last
> years. The health systems have to restructure their organizational
> form and adapt to the growing number of presumed chronic patients,
> that is patients with diabetes, multiple sclerosis, functional
> disorders, chronic heart disease etc. Models of shared care,
> patient education and self-care are tried out and believed from
> medical hold in many countries to be a solution to the predicted
> economic and medical burden. What topics are central in medical
> anthropology when dealing with chronic disease and what kind of
> development do they represent? How is the concept of the patient a
> as complex phenomenon constituted in an interplay with both science
> and medical or social intervention? How to grasp and perceive the
> problem between representation of chronic suffering and the
> feedback within the health sector in terms of policy papers and
> intervention possibilities? What may structural or discursive
> analyses of political strategies inform us about the concept of
> chronic disease?
>
> 2) Multiple medical realities Another growing analytic field is the
> constitution of the health system and the developments within the
> health system. To what extent are multiple medical realities a
> growing reality both within the biomedical health sector and
> outside the biomedical domain? Do we experience a development of -
> or a renewed gaze on - a plural medical system linking closely to
> plural social realities? Multiplicity and difference within a
> health system is in general acknowledged, but is approached during
> recent years with a special focus on the concepts of body and self
> related to a complex concept of health and illness. Body and self
> is not limited to the individual body but comprises both the social
> and the political body as introduced by Scheper-Hughes and Lock in
> 1987. Different social realities exist within the same health care
> system with different social practices that create oppositions
> between them. In this sense the multiple medical and social
> realities have both affinities and opposing relations - considering
> for example different health or risk concepts in the complex
> reality of health promotion. One could ask how is the notion of
> self and body connected to changes in pluralistic practice? What
> kind of medical social practices are developing at the level of
> everyday lived experience? How is the interaction between those and
> the official health system perceived? How to talk about reciprocity
> between multiple medical and social realities and at what level?
>
> 3) Medical anthropology as a science undergoing change More and
> more medical anthropological research takes place in direct
> collaboration with biomedicine, which in many ways has opened up
> for alternative perspectives on illness and health within
> biomedicine. This collaboration is not only a question of plain
> interdisciplinarity but also of power relations and political
> epistemology. What happens to MA and one*s position as a researcher
> in this collaboration? What happens to representation and intention
> when biomedicine, international health or medical sociology wants
> you? Former discussions on this have been held in e.g. the
> anglosaxon world but for now we would like to move on to discuss
> theoretical and methodological developments based on collaboration.
> For example one experience for medical anthropologists lies at the
> level of distinction, e.g. the sharpening of arguments, methodology
> and goal of particular projects. A sharpening which is fruitful for
> the consistency of any research but that also often has a certain
> influence on e.g. sampling procedures. To what extent is or should
> the research process be guided pragmatically by being *at home* or
> by strict methodological differences -whatever they are? What are
> the theoretical implications for a final analysis?At another level
> we find transformation and adjustment of anthropological approaches
> to health problems, formulated by and large by biomedicine or other
> medical fields. Mixed methodology is a challenging approach in this
> field but is often a tool-based methodological approach instead of
> an epistemological approach. What happens to contextualisation and
> critical scientific approach, when it is often left aside to give
> space to the demand for applicability? What happens to
> representation of anthropological knowledge? Are new kinds of valid
> knowledge being developed and/or new standards for qualitative
> research?
>
> Abstracts should be sent to [log in to unmask], deadline September 1st
> 2007.Max: 250 words
>
> (The subsequent deadline for paper submission will be February 1st
> 2008)
>
> Participants: We take the permission to limit the number of
> participants with abstracts/papers to 30 and we will therefore go
> through the submitted abstracts and possibly have to make a
> selection on the basis of relevance to the conference topics. For
> each paper we will appoint an opponent among the participants.
> Paper presentation will be limited to 30 minutes including remarks
> from the opponent and discussion. More about these things later.
>
> Price: Preliminary price per person for the whole conference (3
> nights with full board): 400 EURO. The conference organizers will
> try to raise funds for the conference and the price might be
> reduced. We will keep you informed about this.
>
> Transports: There are several possibilities of fly routes and we
> would like to suggest that your destination will be one of three:
> Hamburg (Germany), Billund or Århus (Denmark). We will try to
> arrange bus transport from these 3 airports to the conference
> venue. Later we will inform you further about transport possibilities
>
> Valuta: Please note that the currency in Denmark is Danish Kroner
> (DKK) and not EURO
>
> Any questions regarding the conference are welcome and should be
> sent to Mette Bech Risør, [log in to unmask], Research Clinic for
> Functional Disorders, Aarhus University Hospital or Bjarke Paarup,
> [log in to unmask], Department of Ethnography and Anthropology,
> Aarhus University.
>
> The organizers are preparing a homepage for the conference and all
> further information will be conveyed via this homepage. We will let
> you know when it is ready and running.
>
> On behalf of the MAAH Scientific Committee Bjarke Paarup and Mette
> Bech Risør
>
>
> Mette Bech Risør
> antropolog, mag.art., ph.d.
> Forskningsklinikken for Funktionelle Lidelser
> Barthsgade 5, 1.
> 8200 Århus N
> Tlf: 89 49 43 29
> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
>
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