A consortium of social science and medical researchers, advocates and clinicians announced the major research priorities over the next 10 years for addressing mental illness around the world. They call for urgent action and investment. Medical anthropologist Arthur Kleinman, of Harvard University, is a member of the group. Nature carried a report on the consortium’s [...]
A special edition of the journal Body & Society is devoted to contemporary “medical migrations,” or travel in search of a medical cure for a health problem. Elizabeth Roberts and Nancy Scheper-Hughes, both medical anthropologists, are the guest editors. In their introductory essay, they state that increasing numbers of people are now crossing national borders [...]
Climate and Culture Change in the Andes: August 2011 When: August 4th – 24th The Center for Social Well Being is now in its 10th year offering our 3 week training program in interdisciplinary qualitative field methods, as well as Spanish and Quechua language classes, in the Peruvian Andes. The combined undergraduate and graduate level [...]
• How much are the wars costing: guess again President Obama recently cited a price tag of $1 trillion for America’s ongoing wars and one reason to bring troops home from Afghanistan. According to a study just released, is a gross underestimate and the total is more like $3.7-4.4 trillion, not to mention the human lives [...]
By contributor Sean Carey Around 20 years ago, I paid a visit to the Mahatma Gandhi Institute (MGI) in Mauritius to consult the records of Indians who were brought from the subcontinent to work as indentured labourers in the sugar plantations after slavery was abolished in 1835. Before examining any documents, I was invited to [...]
