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Due to strike action over pensions at UK universities, the abstract
submission deadline has been extended to 9 March.
> *CALL FOR PAPERS*
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> *We invite you to submit abstracts for papers for the conference*
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> *Valuing Health (Edinburgh, 4-5 September 2018)*
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> *//*
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> */Biennial Conference of the Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology /*
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> */Edinburgh, 4-5 September 2018 /*
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> *Organized by *
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> *Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology & Royal Anthropological
> Institute*
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> *Deadline for paper abstracts: 9 March 2018 *
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> Staying healthy and recovering from sickness comes at a price. Staying
> ill means losing time, losing money, losing productivity. Seeing
> doctors, buying drugs, investing in future health, all cost money.
> People's willingness to pay can be elicited, benefits need to be
> maximized while costs need to be minimized. Return of investments in
> health are measured for individuals and whole populations.
> Disability-adjusted life years, efficiency savings, the marginal
> utility of life are all calculated with as much accuracy as possible.
> Good health is taken as an incalculable value, while the means to
> achieve it are presented as calculable values. Mathematics,
> statistics, and economic formulas set the terms for how international,
> national institutions and private corporations are approaching the
> health of human beings, of nonhuman beings, and of the environment.
> Medical anthropologists have long been aware of how health is
> approached economically and metrically, without usually looking at the
> details of how numbers are collected and put to use. Many engagements
> stop at invoking neoliberalism or late capitalism. At the same time,
> anthropology's toolkit exceeds a narrow focus on economics and can
> open up rich discussions on value beyond money. The Edinburgh Medical
> Anthropology Centre's biennial conference will assemble new
> anthropological research how health is valued today. We invite
> scholars working on the health of humans, of animals, and of habitats
> are invited to rethink what it means to make value measurable in
> economic terms. Who is producing numbers, and to what end? What
> evidence counts, which evidence does not count? What forms of
> knowledge, belief, or perhaps strategic ignorance, are revealed and
> hidden by the values put on health? Does the value of health change
> when kinship and social relations, ritual and religion, affect and
> emotions, belonging and exclusion, are made to count?
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> *Themes & questions:*
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> Valuing health and sickness: who, where, how?
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> Unhealthy markets, markets of health
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> Valuing kinship and wellbeing
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> The worth of a person
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> Valuing labour and work values
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> Relations between local values and global value
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> Negotiating value in cross-disciplinary collaborations
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> How metrics, data, evidence transform value
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> **
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> *Keynote speakers (confirmed)*:
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> Anita Hardon, University of Amsterdam
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> Julie Livingston, New York University
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> *Programme:*
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> Two full days of individual papers, keynotes, and roundtable discussions.
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> *Abstract submission and selection:*
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> Send your abstracts (250-300 words) to [log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]> by 9 March 2018. Proposed papers will be
> selected by the end of March 2018.
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> *Conference Fee (includes lunches & tea/coffee):*
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> Full/professional: GBP 75, Reduced/student: GBP 55
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> **
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> *Conference committee: *
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> Stefan Ecks, Maya Unnithan, Karina Kielmann, Alice Street, Lilian
> Kennedy, Michaela McCaffrey (secretary)
>
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