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HEALTH IN TRANSITION: ETHNOGRAPHIES OF BIO-MEDICINE IN POST-SOCIALIST EUROPE
7-8 June 2012, kindly hosted by: Romanian Academy of Sciences, Bucharest,
Romania
Call for Papers
With notable exceptions, the topics of health and medicine in post-socialist
Europe have received limited anthropological attention compared to research
on both the global 'North' and 'South'. Implicitly, medical anthropological
research from academic institutions in Central and Eastern Europe is little
known by scholars from other parts of the world.
The goal of this Conference is therefore twofold. First, it brings together
medical anthropologists and social science healthcare researchers with an
interest in the changes affecting health and medical care in post-socialist
countries. The Conference will therefore explore the challenges that
medical systems in the region have faced during the last two decades of
market economy and social upheaval.
Secondly, the Conference aspires to provide a forum for debates over the
place of anthropology amongst other social sciences in the region. It will
emphasize the need for enhanced awareness and acknowledgment of medical
anthropology while highlighting its potential for applied, critical and
engaged research.
The Conference builds on the Health in transition: (Bio)Medicine as culture
in post-socialist Europe Conference held at the Charles University, Prague,
Czech Republic, on 10-11 June 2011. An annual series of events on the topic
of Health in transition is thus to be inaugurated.
With a focus on Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe as well as the
former Soviet Union, organizers welcome contributions based on ethnographic
research, including, but not limited to:
- contemporary forms of biomedical care, ethics and governance;
- impact of Europeanization and globalization on local health
practices
- new patterns of medical approaches to disease;
- intersections of health with gender, ethnicity and other markers of
social difference
- personhood, the body and bio-politics;
- development of health-related professions;
- health among migrant and refugee populations;
- poverty and unequal access to health;
- state ownership and privatization of health care
- uses of ethnography in health policy and practice
- evolution of medical anthropology as a discipline
The deadline for abstracts (300 to 400 words) is 20 February 2012. Complete
papers are due by 7 May 2012. Work in progress is welcome and offers to
chair or discuss panels will be warmly received. Please send abstracts and
further enquiries to [log in to unmask]
Conference fee: 10 Euros for presenters and participants, to be paid during
on-site registration
Organizing committee: Heidi Bludau (Indiana University), Jennifer Carroll
(University of Washington), Michael Rasell (University of Lincoln), Sabina
Stan (Dublin City University), Edit Szenassy (Charles University),
Valentin-Veron Toma (Fr. I. Rainer Institute of Anthropology, Romanian
Academy).
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Dr Michael Rasell
Senior Lecturer
School of Health and Social Care
University of Lincoln
Brayford Pool
Lincoln
LN6 7TS
United Kingdom
Email: [log in to unmask]
Office: 01522 886852 (direct line)
Website: http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/shsc/staff/2502.asp
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