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Call for papers for a workshop during the Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society for Anthropology 30 November to 1 December 2007 in Basel â??Health on the Moveâ?? â?? Health and Illness in a Globalising World. Globalisation and its multifaceted effects have an increasing impact worldwide on medical reality. The various current transformations challenge conventional boundaries of place and time as well in respect of health and illness. Medical anthropology has not yet fully accepted this challenge, it has elaborated social science concepts of globalisation so far only to a lesser extent. Hence, this panel will serve as forum aiming at a first review of current works dealing with this topic. At the same time, we will explicitly leave open the topic as broad as possible, for instance, varying from sub-Saharan migrants and their health in Switzerland, appropriation of Chinese drugs in urban Tanzania or the social construction of ART by HIV-positive Brazilians to virtual â??tele-heart surgeryâ?? in a health district centre of the Papua New Guinean Highlands. The empirical concept of â??Health Transitionâ?? involves transformations such as demographic, epidemiological and socio-cultural processes, urbanisation/migration and change of lifestyle. Medical anthropology research into the effects of these manifold transitions are only at the beginning, for example the rapid ageing of societies worldwide and its increased need of care, the gradual shift of health profils towards chronic and mostly degenerative illnesses in Africa, Asia, and South/Central America, health maintenance in rapidly urbanising areas in â??countries in the Southâ??, or the impact of new trendy nutritional habits on individual health. The increased geographical mobility of people challenges the borders of national health care systems and presents a growing health risk not only because of transmittable germs, but also in view of road casualties worldwide. Medical traditions and methods like Ayurveda medicine and acupuncture as well as epidemics like SARS and avian flu spread rapidly from Asia to Africa and Europe. In the reverse direction, the global trade of highly effective pharmaceuticals and high-tech methods from Europe and North America results in new hopes and needs on local level in African and Asian communities. Along with these globally traded material goods and intellectual concepts there is also a flow of meanings, ideas and believes which will be appropriated in respect of the local context and receive a reinterpretation in most cases and so influencing for example the use of drugs or the etiological understanding of HIV/AIDS. We should bear in mind that both patients and therapists move worldwide to an increasing degree, for instance in rural-urban networks, as part of therapeutic tourism in so-called low-cost countries, or as providers of alternative medicine on the internet. Thus, concepts of a â??multisited medical anthropologyâ?? could be anticipated. All these mobilities and transformations increasingly challenge historical and contemporary understandings of body and mind, wellbeing, health and illness as well as risk and vulnerability in our own societies and those of our global neighbours. They force individuals, social groups and societies to get involved with existential questions in everyday life, in science and in politics. Therefore, this panel addresses to scientists who are interested in these translocal aspects and global â??landscapesâ?? relating to health and illness and who are engaged in these fields. Joint Panel: Institute of Social Anthropology, University Basel, and â??Medical Anthropology Switzerlandâ?? (MAS SEG) Abstracts of maximum 500 words must be sent to Piet van Eeuwijk before 15.06.2007. Conference languages are: German, French and English Kindly note that the organizers cannot offer any grants for travel and accommodation. Panel Convenors: Piet van Eeuwijk, Ethnologisches Seminar der Universität Basel, â??Medical Anthropology Switzerlandâ??/MAS SEG, [log in to unmask] Brigit Obrist, Ethnologisches Seminar der Universität Basel, â??Medical Anthropology Switzerlandâ??/MAS SEG, [log in to unmask] Katja Winzeler, Institut für Sozialanthropologie der Universität Bern, ,Medical Anthropology Switzerlandâ??/MAS SEG, [log in to unmask]