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> The Royal Anthropological Institute announces a one-day conference
> to review current themes, new directions and pedagogical issues in
> the field of medical anthropology in the UK today, to take place at
> SOAS, London on 11th Sept 2007.
>
> Sessions include Biopolitics and Globalisation, Technologies and
> Ethics, Locating the Field in Medical Settings, and a Roundtable
> on Training, Teaching and Publishing in Medical Anthropology.
>
> Please find attached full details of the Programme and Registration
> form.
>
> All welcome! Please circulate widely.
>
>
> Helen Lambert
> ----------------------
> HS Lambert, Senior Lecturer in Medical Anthropology
> Department of Social Medicine
> University of Bristol
> [log in to unmask]
CONFERENCE OF THE
ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE
ON
MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY
SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES
LONDON
Tuesday, 11 September 2007
8.30 9.00 Registration (Room G50)
9.00 9.30 Welcome and keynote address
(Khalili Lecture Theatre): Medical Anthropology at 30: In
maturity, new paradigms, new frameworks? - Murray Last (UCL)
9.30 11.00 Session 1: Biopolitics and globalisation
Chair: Maryon McDonald (Cambridge)
Public Health Citizenship Karina Kielmann (LSHTM)
Genetics Sahra Gibbon (UCL)
Bodies and ecologies Elisabeth Hsu (Oxford)
11.00 11.30 Tea Break
11.30 13.00 Session 2: Technologies and ethics
Chair: Kit Davies (SOAS)
Bioethics Bob Simpson (Durham)
International clinical trials Wenzel Geissler (LSHTM)
Reproductive technologies Maya Unnithan (Sussex)
13.00 14.30 Lunch Break and Poster Session
14.30 16.00 Session 3: Locating the field in medical settings
Chair: Elizabeth Hart (Nottingham)
Hospital ethnography Sushrut Jadhav (UCL)
Researching intervention Chris McKevitt (Kings)
Evidentiary truths Helen Lambert (Bristol)
16.00 17.00 Round Table In the centre or at the margins?
Training, teaching and publishing in medical anthropology
(with staff from the Medical Anthropology masters courses at Brunel,
Durham, Edinburgh, Goldsmiths, Oxford, SOAS, Sussex, UCL)
17.00 19.00 Drinks Reception (Brunei Gallery)
Registration: £ 20 (waged)/ £10 (unwaged) Contact: [log in to unmask]
Medical Anthropology Today Conference Registration
NAME
INSTITUTION
CONTACT ADDRESS
EMAIL ADDRESS
Waged/Unwaged (please delete)
I will/will not be able to attend the Evening Reception (please delete)
Please complete and return form to: [log in to unmask]
Registration fees are payable on the day (in Room G50, SOAS)
N.B. The RAI Office will be closed from Friday 17th - Tuesday 28th
August. You will receive confirmation of your Registration by email
in the first week of September.
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