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Against Sick States: Ebola Protests in Austerity Spain – Somatosphere

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A few months ago, the independent Spanish online newspaper El Diario published a cartoon entitled “Ebola in Madrid”. It showed a health worker, camouflaged in a green protection suit, wearing a white head shield and goggles, leaning over a patient almost completely hidden under the sheets of the hospital bed. The huge hospital room is deserted and empty, virtually looted. It resembles an evacuated department store, but depicts a worn down, abandoned hospital floor. The health worker addresses the patient, saying: “Now the most important thing is that you get calm and relax. We should not disregard the possibility that the virus dies from boredom”. Continue reading Against Sick States: Ebola Protests in Austerity Spain – Somatosphere

Dans la lutte contre Ebola, évitons le néocolonialisme

Le Monde.fr | 20.10.2014 à 15h55 • Mis à jour le 21.10.2014 à 14h23 |Par Guillaume Lachenal (Historien, maître de conférences à l’université Paris-Diderot, membre de l’Institut universitaire de France) et Vinh-Kim Nguyen (Médecin et anthropologue, professeur à l’Ecole de santé publique de l’université de Montréal, membre du Collège d’études mondiales, et urgentiste à l’hôpital Avicenne de Bobigny).

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Ebola in Perspective – Cultural Anthropology Journal – October 2014

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“Since early 2014, the international coverage of Africa has been dominated by the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Much of that coverage represents the region as helpless and hopeless, a tragic victim of illogical beliefs and dangerous cultural practices. The contributors to this Hot Spots series offer their personal and professional experience in this region as a critical counter-argument. The essays collected here explore the political landscapes that make the state itself both a vector for and victim of this disease (Abramowitz, Ammann, Batty, Ferme, Harman, Nguyen); they write of the social realities of funeral practices, both their limits and their potential for change (Richards); they write of the media coverage of the disease and the complex ways in which information flows in and around the region (McGovern); they write of the way Ebola discourse has entered popular culture (Benton, Tucker), occult narratives (Bolten), and the diasporic imaginary (Sayegh, Wesley); and they write of the complicated ways it links to the region’s history of violence (Schroven, Soderstrom).”

by Daniel Hoffman and Mary Moran

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Lecture Series “Global Health: Anticipations, Infrastructures, Knowledges”

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The framing of health as a global issue over the last three decades has carved out an intellectual, economic and political space that differs from that of the post-war international public health field. This older system was characterised by disease eradication programs and by the dominance of nation states and the organisations of the United Nations. Continue reading Lecture Series “Global Health: Anticipations, Infrastructures, Knowledges”

Séminaire de lecture : terrains et théories de la santé mondiale

choleraSéminaire animé par Vincent Duclos et So Yeon Leem, chercheurs en post-doctorat, Chaire Anthropologie et santé mondiale, Collège d’études mondiales (FMSH, Paris).

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Chronique d’un film catastrophe bien preparé

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Guillaume Lachenal a publié sur le site internet de Libération, en date du 18 septembre 2014, une très intéressante tribune traitant de l’épidémie actuelle du virus Ebola :

«Inutile d’interpréter laborieusement les films catastrophe dans leur rapport à une crise sociale “objective” ou même à un phantasme “objectif” de catastrophe», écrivait Jean Baudrillard en 1981. C’est dans l’autre sens qu’il faut dire que c’est «le social lui-même quis’organise selon un scénario de film de catastrophe». Il y a peu, Libération consacrait quelques colonnes à l’analyse de films d’apocalypse, miroirs de nos anxiétés face aux pandémies. L’épidémie de virus Ebola, qui ravage plusieurs pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest, exige une critique plus radicale.

Article complet : http://www.liberation.fr/monde/2014/09/18/chronique-d-un-film-catastrophe-bien-prepare_1103419

Local Biologies and the Chemical Infrastructures of Global Health

New open access publication from Alex Nading: Biologies and the Chemical Infrastructures of Global Health.

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Chemicals are key material features of the infrastructure of global health. While the models for disease control deployed in global health projects tend to treat chemicals as stable objects, Continue reading Local Biologies and the Chemical Infrastructures of Global Health

“Global Health: Anticipations, infrastructures, knowledges” seminar 2014-2015

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Submissions to MAT journal

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an open-access journal in the anthropology of health, illness, and medicine.

Submissions are invited for the following sections:

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Postdoctoral Fellowship in Paris: Gerda Henkel Stiftung – FMSH – 2015

CallAs part of the partnership between the Gerda Henkel Stiftung and the Collège d’études mondiales, two post-doctoral grants will be awarded, for a period of 12 months, to two young researchers living outside of France.

The Collège d’études mondiales is a center of exchange and reflexion for researchers in the Social Sciences and Humanities. The institution faces head-on the methodological, epistemological and conceptual changes demanded of those who interpret contemporary phenomena. Continue reading Postdoctoral Fellowship in Paris: Gerda Henkel Stiftung – FMSH – 2015

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Paris: Fernand Braudel – IFER

Fernand Braudel – IFER Fellowships | Call for applications september 2014

Two post-doc fellowships are offered at the Collège d’études mondiales in Paris  in connection with the Fernand Braudel incoming program.Applicants must have a PhD and reside outside France and belong to a non-French research institution (university, academy of sciences, or other research organism). To apply please contact the Collège d’études mondiales scientific coordination: sara.guindani-riquier@msh-paris.fr & nathanael.cretin@msh-paris.fr. Continue reading Postdoctoral Fellowship in Paris: Fernand Braudel – IFER

La Personne en médecine

Colloque organisé par le programme pluridisciplinaire Sorbonne Paris Cité : “La Personne en médecine”

Mercredi 16 juillet 2014 de 9 h à 14 h 40

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Responsables : Céline Lefève (Centre Georges Canguilhem/SPHERE/Institut des Humanités, Paris Diderot) et François Villa (CRPMS, Paris Diderot), porteurs du Programme.

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Parce qu’elle est un art au carrefour de plusieurs sciences, biomédicales et sociales,  s’inscrivant dans l’histoire et la société, la médecine requiert des recherches pluridisciplinaires. Les évolutions médicales contemporaines rendent indispensable une nouvelle alliance entre Continue reading La Personne en médecine

Call for candidates: one-year fellowship at the Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale of the Collège de France (Paris)

The Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale, based at the Collège de France in Paris, will hire a researcher for a one-year post-doctoral contract starting 1st January 2015 to study the perception of animal diseases in Australia. Continue reading Call for candidates: one-year fellowship at the Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale of the Collège de France (Paris)

Un monde sans sida ?

14008339012_science-en-qustion_258Un nouvel artice de Vinh-kim Nguyen intitulé “Un monde sans sida ?” vient de paraître dans l’ouvrage collectif La science en question(s), dirigé par Michel Wieviorka.

 

 

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La médecine du tri. Histoire, éthique, anthropologie

LA MEDECINE DU TRINous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer la sortie de l’ouvrage collectif La médecine du tri. Histoire, éthique, anthropologie  sous la direction de Guillaume Lachenal, Céline Lefève et Vinh-Kim Nguyen, paru chez PUF dans la collection Science, Histoire & Société.

 

 

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