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Oxford Green College Discussion Group

Green College, Committee Room, Monday 4.30-5.30 pm,
Conveners: Lesley-Anne Goodisson and Elisabeth Hsu


Week  1, Monday 20 Jan:
The doctor is Online: Patients' Perception of Physician Authority and
Expertise in the Electronic Age Elizabeth Snyder, M Sc in medical
anthropology (ISCA)

Week  3, Monday 3rd Feb:
Tibetan Medicine
Barbara Gerke, M Sc in medical anthropology (ISCA)

Week  5, Monday 17 Feb:
Access to Essential Medicines
Sanjay Basu, M Sc in medical anthropology (ISCA)

Week  7, Monday 3 March:
Itza' Maya Ethnomedicine
Justin Schram, M Sc in medical anthropology (ISCA)


Medical Anthropology Research Seminars

Complemenary and Alternative Medicines (CAM):
Anthropological Perspectives

Banbury Road 61, Tuesday 5 - 6.30 pm
Conveners: Elisabeth Hsu and Stanley Ulijaszek

Week 2, Tuesday 28 January:
Ayurveda in Germany - Anthropological Perspectives
Robert Frank, University of Bielefeld

Week 3, Tuesday 4 February:
Chinese Medicine in Britain
Volker Scheid, London

Week 4, Tuesday 11 February:
Homeopathy in South London
Christine Barry, Brunel University

Week 5, Tuesday 18 February:
Shinryou naika -Psychosomatic Medicine or
'Caring for the Heart' in Japan
Glyn Adams, Brunel University

Week  6, Tuesday 25 February:
Transculturation, Cosmopolitanism and
Complementary Medicine in Urban Mexico
Valentina Napolitano, University of Cambridge

Week 7, Tuesday 4 March:
The Kitchen, the Government, and the Market:
the Commodification of Ayurveda in India
Maarten Bode, University of Amsterdam

Week 8, Tuesday 11 March:
Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine: the Patient's Perspective
Charlotte Paterson, GP and MRC Research Fellow, Bristol


 Fertility and Reproduction Seminars

Reproductive Technologies

61 Banbury Road, Monday 11.00 - 12.30
Convener: Dr Soraya Tremayne

20 January      Dr Sheila Kitzinger, Oxford
Week 1  Visualising the foetus: cross-cultural perceptions of the unborn
baby

27 January      Maria Carranza, University of Cambridge
Week 2  Provisional title: Sterilisation of women in Costa Rica

3 February      Dr Monica Bonaccorso, University of Cambridge
Week 3  Provisional title: Programmes of Gamete donation: Strategies in
(private clinics) of assisted conception

10 February     Dr Joan McCarthy, Department of Nursing Studies, University
College, Cork Week 4    Procreative liberty and the welfare of future
children

17 February     Professor Brigitta Hauser-Schaublin, University of Gottingen
Week 5  Experiencing the body in the context of reproductive technologies

24 February     Dr Maya Unnithan, University of Sussex
Week 6  Reproductive technologies and authoritative knowledge on maternal
health in Rajasthan


All Welcome


 Ethnicity and Identity Seminar

The Identity of Medical Practitioners and Traditional Healers

Banbury Road 61, Friday 11- 12.30;
Conveners: Shirley Ardener, Ian Fowler, Elisabeth Hsu

Week 1 (24th January) Dr Jenny Littlewood (Research Fellow, Institute of
Education, London) "The Ambiguity of Labour: the Identity of Midwives"

Week 2 (31st January) Dr Kent Maynard (Denison University,USA and VF ISCA)
"The Vicissitudes of Kedjem "Traditional Doctors" and an Ambivalent
Clientele in Cameroon"

Week 3 (7th February) Prof Gina Buijs (University of Zululand)
"Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity among Zulu Diviners"

Week 4 (14th February) Dr Janette Davies (QEH and John Radcliffe Hospital)
        "Necessary In-betweens: Auxiliary Workers in the Hierarchy"

Week 5 (21 February) Mr Peter Mole (College for Integrated Chinese
Medicine, Reading) "The Identity of an Acupuncturist in Britain"

Week 6 (28th February) Dr Linda Gask (Dept of Psychiatry, Manchester
University) "The Psychiatrist: Cultural Perceptions and Self-Perceptions"

Week 7 (7th March) Dr Anne Digby (Oxford Brookes University)
"Shaping Changing Identities: the General Practitioner in Britain and South
Africa"

Week 8 (14th March) Dr Ing-Britt Trankell (University of Upsalla)
        "Pharmacists in Cambodia: Identities and Experiences"

The seminars view professionals who manage health and illness, in different
cultural contexts, who operate at different levels in medical structures.
Papers will cover their identities as perceived by themselves and by
others, in the administration and symbolic expressions of their practices.
Their biographies, their training, and the practitioner-patient interaction
will receive attention.


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