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Against Sick States: Ebola Protests in Austerity Spain – Somatosphere
By Janina Kehr
This article is part of the series: Ebola fieldnotes
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
Call for Papers: European Association of Social Anthropologists 2014 – Panel 81: “Health Affects: Medical Belongings across the Globe”
In tracing moral attachments, emotional frustrations and collective mobilisations we wish to interrogate citizens’ affective attachments to a right to health and the political innovations it engenders. Continue reading Call for Papers: European Association of Social Anthropologists 2014 – Panel 81: “Health Affects: Medical Belongings across the Globe”
TB/HIV: Distinct Histories, Entangled Futures. Towards an Epistemology of Coinfection
27 / 28 February 2014, Fondation Brocher, Geneva
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Organized by Lukas Engelmann and Janina Kehr
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The treatment and control of coinfections is a key element in the field of global health. As multimorbidity becomes a growing focus Continue reading TB/HIV: Distinct Histories, Entangled Futures. Towards an Epistemology of Coinfection