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Deadline January 5th, 2014 Best wishes, Sumeet Jain ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Sumeet Jain <[log in to unmask]> To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2013 10:45 AM Subject: ASA CFP: Economic wealth and mental health: questioning the paradoxes Apologies for cross-posting. *Call for paper proposals- DEADLINE 5TH JANUARY 2014* ASA14 Decennial: Anthropology and Enlightenment 19-22 June 2014 The Surgeons' Hall, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh Economic wealth and mental health: questioning the paradoxes (Panel P63) Convenors Stefan Ecks (Edinburgh University) [log in to unmask] Sumeet Jain (University of Edinburgh) [log in to unmask] Hanna Mantila (University of Edinburgh) [log in to unmask] Summary How are mental health and economic wealth related to each other? This panel invites papers questioning wealth/health relations. We are particularly interested in how the methods used by anthropologists can, or cannot, provide a critical vantage point onto global mental health. Long Abstract How are mental health and economic wealth related to each other? Economic distress, income disparities, and rapid economic change have been suspected to cause a range of illnesses. But this relationship in cases of mental illness remains paradoxical and contested. Efforts to relate economic wealth to mental health have a long history, but sustained discussions for a social "enlightenment" campaign came in the 1990s with the introduction of 'DALY' calculations, marking a shift towards measuring the burden of disability caused by mental illnesses. New DALY-based statistics pushed mental health higher up global health agendas and a "global mental health movement" emerged to lobby for a drastic "scaling up" of mental health services in low and middle-income countries. Core parts of the "evidence base" are calculations of investment in mental health, and how much growth could be generated with increased spending on drugs and therapies. The causal links between economic wealth and mental health remain unclear, however. Initial World Health Organization conceptualizations of global mental health highlighted the dangers of capitalist growth — a classic tale of "disembedding" was applied to mental health. This critical view was abandoned in favour of a pro-growth vision: poverty meant poor mental health, and economic growth meant improved mental health. But the paradoxes refuse to be resolved easily. This panel invites papers questioning wealth/health relations from the point of view of social anthropology. We are particularly interested in how the methods used by anthropologists can, or cannot, provide a critical vantage point onto global mental health. Paper proposals should consist of: * a paper title * authors/co-authors * a short abstract of fewer than 300 characters * a long abstract of fewer than 250 words. All paper proposals must be submitted via the conference website. Feel free to email us directly for informal queries (see email addresses above). Proposal abstracts should be submitted through: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2014/panels.php5?PanelID=2747 Conference information is available at: http://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa14/ <http://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa14/> . The call for papers closes on 5th January 2014. Best wishes, Sumeet Jain, Stefan Ecks, Hanna Mantila Dr. Sumeet Jain, Lecturer in Social Work, School of Social & Political Science, University of Edinburgh Chrystal Macmillan Building 15A George Square Edinburgh EH8 9LD, United Kingdom Tel 0131 6511463 email [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Website: http://www.socialwork.ed.ac.uk/staff_profiles/jain_sumeet Associate Editor, Anthropology and Medicine, Website: http://www.informaworld.com/canm ********************************************************************** 1. For general enquires or problems with the list or to CHANGE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS send a message to: [log in to unmask] 2. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the following message: set medsocnews nomail 3. To resume email from the list, send the following message: set medsocnews mail 4. 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