symposium

Analysis in Medical Anthropology

Date

Mar 5-13, 1988

Organized by

Shirley Lindenbaum and Margaret Lock

Location

Hotel do Guincho, Cascais, Portugal

Publications

Knowledge, Power and Practice (Shirley Lindenbaum and Margaret Lock, Eds.) University of California Press, 1993.

Participants

George Armelagos University of Massachusetts, USA
Roberto Briceño-Leon Universidad Central de Venezuela
Jean Comaroff University of Chicago, USA
Sue Estroff Univeristy of North Carolina, USA
Horacio Fabrega, Jr. University of Pittsburgh, USA
Ronald Frankenberg University of Keele, UK
Byron J. Good Harvard University, USA
Donna Haraway University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Roger Jeffery University of Edinburgh, UK
Patricia Kaufert University of Manitoba, Canada
Shirley Lindenbaum New School for Social Research, USA
Margaret Lock McGill University, Canada
Diana Long College of Physicians, Philadelphia, USA
Gananath Obeyesekere Princeton University, USA
Tola Olu Pearce Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria
Lorna Amarasingham Rhodes University of Washington, USA
Nancy Scheper-Hughes Univeristy of California, Berkeley, USA
Sydel Silverman Wenner-Gren Foundation, USA
Nicole Sindzingre Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
Pamela Smith Pace University, USA
Peter Wright Portsmouth Polytechnic, UK
Allan Young Case Western Reserve University, USA

ORGANIZER’S STATEMENT: This symposium brought together an international group of scholars from the fields of anthropology, biology, sociology, and history whose work is at the forefront of the emerging field of medical anthropology. The aims of the conference were (1) to reflect upon the historical development of medical anthropology and to consider the directions in which it is currently headed, and (2) to seek links among domains of inquiry generally treated separately – biology, social context, and symbolism. Drawing on a series of case studies dealing with illness, medical knowledge, and the body, the discussions problematized such key notions as the self, sex, reproduction, race, and disease and sought new ways of conceptualizing the relationship between biology and culture.

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