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Coronavirus and Social Isolation: 16 Insights from Digital Anthropology
GEORGIANA MURARIU
Repost from Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing
We recently conducted nine 16 month studies on the use of smartphones by older people, which is the main source of insights here. You can read more about the project here.
Connections During Coronavirus: From Cuba to Brazil
CLAUDIA FONSECA
“Consciously Quarantined: A COVID-19 response from the Social Sciences” Introduction to Series
REBECCA IRONS & SAHRA GIBBON
The past term has been tumultuous, to say the least.
Book Launch: “Critical Medical Anthropology: Perspectives in and from Latin America”
You can Download this book for free here.
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Consciously Quarantined: A COVID-19 response from the Social Sciences
As the situation surrounding COVID-19 intensifies and concern mounts, many of us will be self-isolating and facing the next few weeks quarantined at home. This makes it an opportune moment to collectively gather our thoughts and reflect critically on the unfolding situation and the wider effects that this pandemic will have on humans and society.
Excavating and recreating the biosocial; birth cohorts as ethnographic object of inquiry and site of intervention
Sahra Gibbon & Michelle Pentecost
“Remodelling a medical brain: Thinking Anthropologically”…
Paulina Pérez-Duarte Mendiola
MSc Medical Anthropology & Pediatrician
DR KELEKIAN: This treatment is the strongest thing we have to offer you. And, as research, it will make a significant contribution to our knowledge.
VIVIAN: Knowledge, yes.
W;t A Play by Margaret Edson
A multi-perspective of global mental health: A summary and reflection on the seminar
Yifan Lu, MSc Medical Anthropology
“Promoting Social Embeddedness of New Biotechnologies”
Rebecca Irons
Attendance to the public’s engagement with, and acceptance of, biotechnologies is undoubtedly an important issue to breech for ‘scientists’, STS scholars, and anthropologists alike. However, this still remains only an emergent topic of discussion in China – an omission that the Newton Fund workshop “Promoting Social Embeddedness of New Biotechnologies”, held in October 2019 in Beijing – hoped to address.
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