Peter van Eeuwijk

Publikationen

• Im Druck. "Pains, Pills, and Physicians. Self-Medication as Social Agency among Elderly People in Urban Sulawesi, Indonesia". In: Brigitte Röder, Willemijn de Jong und Karl W. Alt (Hrsg.): Alter(n) anders denken. Kulturelle und biologische Perspektiven. Thinking Aging Differently. Cultural and Biological Perspectives. Köln, Weimar, Wien: Böhlau Verlag.
  
  
• 2011. "Altern in Unsicherheit. Gesundheit und Pflege von alten Menschen in Indonesien und Tansania". In: Carolin Kollewe und Elmar Schenkel (Hrsg.): Alter: unbekannt. Über die Vielfalt des Älterwerdens. Internationale Perspektiven. S. 83-111. Bielefeld: Transcript-Verlag.
  
  
• 2010. "Der Ansatz des 'Medizinischen Pluralismus' in Zeiten der Globalisierung: eine medizinethnologische Perspektive". In: Brigitte Ausfeld-Hafter (Hrsg.): Pluralismus im Gesundheitswesen: interdisziplinäre Perspektiven. S. 139-170. Bern, Berlin: Peter Lang. (Reihe 'Komplementäre Medizin im interdisziplinären Diskurs', Bd. 14).
  
  
• 2009. "Welchen Nutzen hat die Forschung der Medizinethnologie für die Medizin?". In: Bulletin Schweizerische Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften 2: 40-41.
  
  
• 2007. "The Power of Food: Mediating Social Relationships in the Care of Chronically Ill Elderly People in Urban Indonesia". In: Anthropology of Food S3: 1-23.
  
  
• 2007. (gemeinsam mit Gabriele Weichart) "Preface: Food Chains: Eating, Drinking, Feeding - Framing Social Relations/Les Chaines Alimentaires: du Boire et du Manger ou Comment se Nourrissent les Relations Sociales". In: Anthropology of Food S3: 1-5.
  
  
• 2007. (Hrsg., gemeinsam mit Gabriele Weichart) "Food Chains: Eating, Drinking, Feeding - Framing Social Relations/Les Chaines Alimentaires: du Boire et du Manger ou Comment se Nourrissent les Relations Sociales". In: Anthropology of Food S3: Special Issue. (December 2007).
  
  
• 2007. "Macht und Magie von neun roten Pillen. Alte Leute und ihre Wahrnehmung von Medikamenten in Nord-Sulawesi, Indonesien". In: Anna Schmid und Alexander Brust (Hrsg.): Rot. Wenn Farbe zur Täterin wird. S. 142-145. Basel: Christoph Merian Verlag.
  
  
• 2006. (Hrsg., gemeinsam mit Brigit Obrist) Vulnerabilität, Migration und Altern. Medizinethnologische Ansätze im Spannungsfeld von Theorie und Praxis. Zürich: Seismo-Verlag.
  
  
• 2006. (gemeinsam mit Brigit Obrist) "Einleitung: Vulnerabilität, Migration und Altern". In: Peter van Eeuwijk und Brigit Obrist (Hrsg.): Vulnerabilität, Migration und Altern. Medizinethnologische Ansätze im Spannungsfeld von Theorie und Praxis. S. 10-24. Zürich: Seismo-Verlag.
  
  
• 2006. "Altern im städtischen Umfeld Indonesiens". In: Peter van Eeuwijk und Brigit Obrist (Hrsg.): Vulnerabilität, Migration und Altern. Medizinethnologische Ansätze im Spannungsfeld von Theorie und Praxis. S. 218-240. Zürich: Seismo-Verlag.
  
  
• 2006. (gemeinsam mit Brigit Obrist) "Gesundsein und Kranksein als kultureller Prozess". In: Bulletin of Medicus Mundi Switzerland 100: 6-9.
  
  
• 2006. (gemeinsam mit Billy J. Kepel) "Budaya, Kesehatan dan Kemiskinan: Mencari Model Alternatif Pelayanan Kesehatan dalam Pendekatan Budaya di Sulawesi Utara. (Culture, Health and Poverty: Looking for an Alternative Model for Health Services from an Anthropological Approach in North Sulawesi)". In: Media Kesehatan 1 (2): 67-72.
  
  
• 2006. "Old-Age Vulnerability, Ill-Health and Care Support in Urban Areas of Indonesia". In: Ageing and Society 26. S. 61-80.
  
  
• 2005. "Elderly People with Chronic Illnesses in Urban North Sulawesi (Indonesia)". In: Media Kesehatan 1 (1):17-23.
  
  
• 2005. (gemeinsam mit Felix Küchler, Verena Grünert, Agnes Plaschy und Liz Sutter) "Auf Gesundheit abonniert: Salutogene Innovation statt pathologische Kostenexplosion". In: Soziale Medizin 2: 20-21.
  
  
• 2005. "When Social Security Reaches its Limits: Long-Term Care of Elderly People in Urban Indonesia". In: Büchel, Romana, Annuska Derks, Susanne Loosli and Sue Thüler (Eds.): Exploring Social (In-)Securities in Asia. S. 74-90. Bern: Institut für Sozialanthropologie. (Arbeitsblätter des Instituts für Sozialanthropologie/Ethnologie der Universität Bern, No. 31).
  
  
• 2005. (gemeinsam mit Billy J. Kepel) "Culture, Health and Poverty in North Sulawesi: Looking for an Alternative Model in Health Service from a Cultural Approach (Budaya, Kesehatan dan Kemiskinan di Sulawesi Utara: Mencari Model Alternatif Pelayanan Kesehatan dalam Pendekatan Budaya)". In: WHO SEARO (Southeast Asia Regional Office) and Faculty of Medicine UNSRAT Manado (Eds.): Poverty Reduction in the Health Sector – from an Anthropological Perspective. (Pengentasan Kemiskinan di Bidang Kesehatan – Khusus dalam Pandangan Antropologi). Manado.
  
  
• 2005. (gemeinsam mit Felix Küchler, Verena Grünert, Agnes Plaschy und Liz Sutter) "Salutogene Innovation statt pathologische Kostenexplosion". In: focus 24:4-22.
  
  
• 2004. "Altern und Gesundheit in Städten Indonesiens. Medizinethnologische Forschung zu 'Health Transition'". In: Tsantsa 9: 123-126.
  
  
• 2004. (gemeinsam mit Verena Keck) "Medizinethnologische Forschungen in Südostasien und Ozeanien". In: Curare. Zeitschrift für Ethnomedizin 27 (1+2): 139-158.
  
  
• 2003. "Urban Elderly with Chronic Illness: Local Understandings and Emerging Discrepancies in North Sulawesi, Indonesia". In: Anthropology and Medicine 10 (3): 325-341.
  
  
• 2003. (gemeinsam mit Brigit Obrist und Mitchell Weiss) "Editorial: Health Anthropology and Urban Health Research". In: Anthropology and Medicine 10 (3): 267-274.
  
  
• 2003. (gemeinsam mit Brigit Obrist) "Afflictions of City Life: Accounts from Africa and Asia". In: Special Issue of Anthropology and Medicine 10 (3) (December 2003).
  
  
• 2003. "Alter, Gesundheit und Health Transition in Ländern des Südens. Eine ethnologische Perspektive". In: Lux, Thomas (Hrsg.): Grundlagen der Ethnomedizin. Kulturelle Dimensionen von Medizin. Ethnomedizin - Medizinethnologie - Medical Anthropology. S. 228-250. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer.
  
  
• 2003. "Growing Old in the City". In: IIAS Newsletter 32: 5. (International Institute for Asian Studies).
  
  
• 2002. "Ageing and Health in Urban Indonesia". In: Urban Health and Development Bulletin 5 (3+4): 25-31.
  
  
• 2001. "Health Transition in Indonesia". In: Ageing and Development 9: 10.
  
  
• 2000. "Health Care from the Perspectives of Minahasa Villagers, Indonesia". In: Linda M. Whiteford and Lenore Manderson (Hrsg.): Global Health Policy, Local Realities: The Fallacy of the Level Playing Field. S. 79-101. Boulder/CO: Lynne Rienner. (Directions in Applied Anthropology).
  
  
• 1999. "‚Diese Krankheit passt nicht zum Doktor’. Medizinethnologische Untersuchungen bei den Minahasa (Nord-Sulawesi, Indonesien) ". Basel: Wepf. (Basler Beiträge zur Ethnologie, Bd. 41).
  
  
• 1999. "Das indonesische Gesundheitssystem: Eine Erfolgsgeschichte läuft aus dem Ruder". In: Mosquito 3: 16-19.
  
  
• 1998. "Krankheitsverhalten, medizinischer Pluralismus und die Sicht der Benützer und Benützerinnen: Medizinethnologische Untersuchungen bei den Minahasa (Nord-Sulawesi, Indonesien)". In: Asiatische Studien-Études Asiatiques 52, 2. S. 319-348. (Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Asienkunde). Sonderdruck: Helbling, Jürg (Hrsg.). Asia in Swiss Anthropology-Asien in der Schweizer Ethnologie.
  
  
• 1998. "Globalisierung, Arbeit, Gewerkschaften. Krisenopfer aus drei Kontinenten: Dem und Bet, TagelöhnerInnen, Indonesien". In: Mosquito 1: 13.
  
  
• 1998. "Indonesien: Die Insel Batam und ihr Frauenprojekt". In: Schritte ins Offene: Emanzipation, Glaube, Kulturkritik 5: 12-15.
  
  
• 1995. "Geister, Dämonen und Seelen stören die Minahasa in Indonesien". In: Keller, Franz B. (Hrsg.): Krank warum? Vorstellungen der Völker, Heiler, Mediziner. S. 144-149. Stuttgart: Cantz.
  
  
• 1995. "Basisgesundheitsversorgung in Indonesien: Fansidar, Ingwersaft und die Seelen der Verstorbenen". In: Mosquito 6: 8-10.
  
  
• 1995. "Traditionelle und moderne Medizin: Unvereinbare Gegensätze?". In: Vielfalt 17: 4-5. (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker Schweiz).
  
  
• 1995. "Health Behaviour, Tradition, and Environmental Change in Sulawesi". In: Indonesian Environmental History Newsletter 6: 5-7. (KITLV EDEN).
  
  
• 1993/94. (gemeinsam mit Brigit Obrist) "Professionalisierte und volkstümliche Basisgesundheitsversorgung bei den Minahasa (Nord-Sulawesi, Indonesien): Konkurrenz oder Ergänzung?" In: Gonseth, Marc-Olivier (Hrsg.): Kranksein und Gesundwerden im Spannungsfeld der Kulturen. S. 435-457. Bern: Lang. (Ethnologica Helvetica, Bd. 17-18).
  
  
• 1988. "Traditional Medicine in Minahasa. A Report of an Investigation about the Traditional Medicine in Kab. Minahasa, Prop. Sulawesi Utara, Indonesia". Zürich: NADEL ETH.
  
  
• 1988. "Mencari-cari kebudayaan asli suku Minahasa". In: Majalah Palakat 8: 34-37.
  
  
  

Vorträge / Poster (ab 1998)

• 2011. "Ageing, Health and Care. Vulnerability and Resilience of Elderly People in Indonesia and Tanzania". Paper presented at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, August 23 2011.
  
  
• 2010. "Discussant paper at the Invited Session 'Circulating the Life Course: Toward an Anthropology of Care and Caregiving'", Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), New Orleans (USA), November 18 2010.
  
  
• 2010. "Care and Solidarity. Vulnerability and Resilience of Elderly People in Indonesia and Tanzania". Paper presented at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), National University of Singapore, Singapore, August 5 2010.
  
  
• 2010. "From 'Cure to Care' among the Elderly. Old Age Vulnerability and Resilience in Tanzania". Paper presented at the Research Seminar of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), July 9 2010.
  
  
• 2010. "Discussant paper at Technical Meeting of WHO 'Ageing and Health: From Evidence to Policy'", Geneva (Switzerland), June 3 2010.
  
  
• 2010. "Care and Solidarity: Vulnerability and Resilience of Elderly in Tanzania and Indonesia". Paper presented at the International Swiss-South Africa Seminar ‘The Politics of Care, Welfare and Social Cohesion. Intersectional Perspectives on Redistributive and Liberal Welfare Regimes’, Gender Studies, University of Basel, and National Research Council of South Africa, Basel (Switzerland), May 3-5 2010.
  
  
• 2009. "History of Health Systems in Africa: Focal Points and Transversal Topics. From the Case Studies in Ghana, Tanzania, South Africa and Ivory Coast". Paper presented at the International Advisory Board Meeting of the Research Project 'History of Health Systems in Africa', University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland), October 2 2009.
  
  
• 2009. "An Anthropological Perspective on Health Care and Support of Elderly People in Urban North Sulawesi" . Paper presented at the Institute of Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (FISIP), 'Sam Ratulangi' - University of Manado (UNSRAT), Manado (North Sulawesi, Indonesia), August 28 2009.
  
  
• 2009. (gemeinsam mit Hines Mabika und Pascal Schmid) "History of Health Systems in Africa. Swiss Mission Hospitals and Rural Health Delivery in the 20th Century". Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS) in Berne, August 2009.
  
  
• 2009. "Health Problems and Care of Elderly People in North Sulawesi". Paper presented at the Faculty of Public Health, 'Sam Ratulangi' - University of Manado (UNSRAT), Manado (North Sulawesi, Indonesia), August 21 2009.
  
  
• 2009. "The Problem of Health and Care of Elderly Communities in North Sulawesi Urban Areas". Paper presented at the Faculty of Medicine, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, Jakarta (Indonesia), August 14 2009.
  
  
• 2009. "Applied Anthropology: Agriculture and Nutrition. Examples from Projects in Southeast Asia". Paper presented at the Seminar Course 'Applied Anthropology - an Overview', Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland), May 12 2009.
  
  
• 2009. "Ageing in Insecurity. Health and Care of Elderly People in Indonesia and Tanzania". Paper presented at the Series of Lectures 'Ageing in the World', Studium Generale of the University of Leipzig and Grassi Museum of Ethnography Leipzig (Germany), April 29 2009.
  
  
• 2009. "From Fieldwork to Fair Trade Project. Medicinal Plants in North Sulawesi, Indonesia". Paper presented at the Certificate Course of Advanced Studies University of Zurich in Ethnobotany and Ethnomedicine, Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Zurich, Zurich (Switzerland), March 7 2009.
  
  
• 2008. "Trust and Care". Paper presented at Masterclass (with Prof. Martin Endress) 'Trust and Health/Trust and Conflict', Medical Anthropology Switzerland (MAS) and Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland), December 20 2008.
  
  
• 2008. "Age, Ageing and Growing Old in Tanzania". Paper presented at the 'Wednesday Colloquium', Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland), December 3 2008.
  
  
• 2008. "Old-Age Vulnerability in Tanzania". Paper presented at the Academic Course 'Current Research in Medical Anthropology and Cultural Epidemiology' at the Swiss Tropical Institute, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland), November 25 2008.
  
  
• 2008. "Palm Wine and Sate for the Ancestors". Paper presented at the 'University Basel Open Night' in the Social Anthropology Lecture 'Cultures of Festivities' at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel (Switzerland), September 19 2008.
  
  
• 2008. "From 'Cure to Care'. Old-Age Vulnerability in Urban Indonesia". Paper presented at 2nd International Mainz Symposium 'Anthropology in the 21st Century': 'Reflections on Old Age and Ageing in Past and Present. Biological and Cultural Perspectives', University of Mainz, Mainz (Germany), April 4 2008.
  
  
• 2007. "The Concept of 'Medical Pluralism' in Times of Globalisation: a Medical Anthropology Perspective". Vortrag gehalten am 6. Dezember 2007 in der Ringvorlesung "Pluralismus im Gesundheitssektor" der Universität Bern in Bern.
  
  
• 2007. "Introduction: What Means 'Health on the Move in a Globalising World' in Contemporary Medical Anthropology?". Vortrag gehalten am 1. Dezember 2007 im gemeinsamen Panel 'Health on the Move - Health and Illness in a Globalising World' des Ethnologischen Seminars der Universität Basel und der 'Medical Anthropology Switzerland (MAS)' anlässlich der Jahrestagung der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ethnologie (SEG) 'New Themes in Social Anthropology' an der Universität Basel in Basel.
  
  
• 2007. "From ´Cure to Care` among the Elderly. Old-Age Vulnerability in Tanzania: A New Research Project". Vortrag gehalten am 14. November 2007 im Mittwochskolloquium des Ethnologischen Seminars der Universität Basel in Basel.
  
  
• 2007. "Banyak Suka, banyak Duka: Ageing and Health in Urban Areas of North Sulawesi, Indonesia". Vortrag gehalten am 9. November 2007 im Seminarkolloquium des Ethnologischen Seminars der Universität Zürich in Zürich.
  
  
• 2007. "The Case Study ´Elderly People` in North Sulawesi". Vortrag gehalten am 21. Juli 2007 an der Internationalen Konferenz "Socialisation of the Programme of the National Commission 'Ageing' and its Role in Striving for Increased Autonomy of Elderly People in Indonesia", durchgeführt durch "The National Commission 'Ageing' of the Republic of Indonesia (KOMNAS 'Lansia' )" und "Indonesian Association of Epidemiologists (JEN)" an der "Diponegoro"-Universität (UNDIP) in Semarang (Zentral-Java, Indonesien).
  
  
• 2006. "Bapak Dokter and the Pills: Urban Elderly and their Health-Seeking Behaviour in North Sulawesi, Indonesia". Vortrag gehalten am 12. August 2006 an der Jahresversammlung der "Indonesian Association of Physicians (IDI)", Nord-Sulawesi-Zweig, in Manado (Nord-Sulawesi, Indonesien).
  
  
• 2005. "Many Burdens, Little Dignity. Ageing in Indonesia". Paper presented in the Series of Lectures "Cultures of Ageing", Centre of Gerontology, University of Zurich, Zurich, December 21 2005.
  
  
• 2005. "Elderly People in North Sulawesi: Lessons Learnt from Joint Anthropological and Public Health Research". Paper presented at Seminar Session of the Postgraduate Program, Indonesian Christian University of Tomohon (UKIT, North Sulawesi, Indonesia), Tomohon (North Sulawesi, Indonesia), October 20 2005.
  
  
• 2005. "Traditional Medicine in Minahasa and Sangihe Communities: Which Future in Transforming Indonesia?". Paper presented at Seminar Session of the Postgraduate Program, Indonesian Christian University of Tomohon (UKIT, North Sulawesi, Indonesia), Tomohon (North Sulawesi, Indonesia), October 18 2005.
  
  
• 2005. "Pains, Pills and Physicians. Therapy Choice and Medication of Urban Elderly in North Sulawesi, Indonesia". Paper presented at the International Workshop "Rapport au Corps, Relation Thérapeutique et Circulation des Savoirs sur le Médicament", University of Montreal, Montréal (Québec, Canada), May 27-28 2005.
  
  
• 2005. "International Public Health. Humanitarian Aid in Refugee Camps". Paper presented at the International Workshop "Medical Anthropology in Situation of Conflict", German Society for Anthropology (DGV) Working Group (AG) Medical Anthropology, Basel, February 12 2005.
  
  
• 2005. "Many Burdens, Little Dignity. Ageing in Countries of the South". Paper presented in the Series of Lectures "World Health", Geographic-Anthropological Society (GEG), Basel, January 13 2005.
  
  
• 2004. "When Social Security Reaches its Limits: Long-Term Care of Elderly People in Urban Indonesia". Paper presented at the International Workshop "Social Security in Southeast Asia", Institute of Anthropology, University of Bern, Panel: "(Un)Healthy Transitions?", November 11-12 2004.
  
  
• 2004. "Bapak Dokter and the Pills: Urban Elderly and their Health-Seeking Behaviour in North Sulawesi, Indonesia". Paper presented at the IVth Conference of the European Association for South-East Asian Studies (EUROSEAS), Paris (France), Panel: "Transformations in Health Care Systems in Southeast Asia", September 1-4 2004.
  
  
• 2004. "The Burden Behind Long-Term Care in Urban Indonesia". Paper presented at ASEF (Asia-Europe Foundation) International Workshop "Old-Age Vulnerabilities: Asian and European Perspectives", "Brawijaya"-University, Malang (East Java, Indonesia), July 8-10 2004.
  
  
• 2003. "Growing Old in the City. Elderly People and Health in Urban Indonesia". Paper presented at Medical Anthropology Unit, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, October 6 2003 (Guest Lecture).
  
  
• 2003. "Research on Elderly People in Urban Areas in North Sulawesi Province". Paper presented at Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, 'Sam Ratulangi'-University of Manado (UNSRAT), Manado (North Sulawesi, Indonesia), April 3 2003.
  
  
• 2002. "Ageing in Urban Context in Indonesia". Paper presented at the Conference "Medical Anthropology between Theory and Practice: the 10th Anniversary of IKME/CIAM", Interdisciplinary Committee for Medical Anthropology (IKME), Basel (Switzerland), September 20-21 2002.
  
  
• 2002. "Herbal Plants in Minahasa from an Anthropological Perspective". Paper presented at Seminar Session of the Postgraduate Program, Indonesian Christian University of Tomohon (UKIT, North Sulawesi, Indonesia), Tomohon (North Sulawesi, Indonesia), January 7-8 2002.
  
  
• 2001. "Elderly People in Urban Areas in Indonesia". Paper presented at the "Wednesday Colloquium", Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, November 21 2001.
  
  
• 2001. "Growing Old in the City. Age and Ageing in North Sulawesi, Indonesia". Paper presented at the IIIrd Conference of the European Association for South-East Asian Studies (EUROSEAS), London (UK), September 6-8 2001; Panel: 'Social Security and Social Policy in Southeast Asia'.
  
  
• 2001. "Research on Elderly People in Urban Areas of Developing Countries: Why is it necessary to carry out Research in Anthropology on Elderly People?". Paper presented at the Institute of Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (FISIP), 'Sam Ratulangi'-University of Manado (UNSRAT), Manado (North Sulawesi, Indonesia), June 28 2001.
  
  
• 2001. "Growing Old in the City. Health Transition among the Elderly in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. An Anthropological Approach to Old-Age Research". Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Commission for Research Partnerships with Developing Countries (KFPE), Bern, June 15 2001; Poster Session: "Graduate Course: Urban Health in Developing Countries".
  
  
• 2000. "Fieldwork Methodology on Ageing in the City". Paper presented at the Academic Staff Meeting, University of Heidelberg, Institute of Anthropology, November 21 2000.
  
  
• 2000. "Growing Old in the City. Some Preliminary Results of Ongoing Research in Indonesia". Paper presented at the Peer Group Meeting of the Interdisciplinary Committee for Medical Anthropology (IKME), Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, November 8 2000.
  
  
• 2000. "Elderly People in Urban Areas: New Tasks for Parish Priests". Paper presented at the Workshop "Establishing of Junior Priests" of The Evangelical Sangihe-Talaud Church (GMIST, North Sulawesi, Indonesia), Kolongan Beha (Tahuna), Juni 23 2000.
  
  
• 2000. "Research in Medical Anthropology in Minahasa Area: Some Findings on Health Behaviour". Paper presented at the Institute of Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (FISIP), 'Sam Ratulangi'-University of Manado (UNSRAT), Manado (North Sulawesi, Indonesia), March 30 and April 1 2000.
  
  
• 2000. "Gender and Culture from an Anthropological Perspective". Paper presented at the Seminar "Gender 2000", Christian Foundation for Higher Education (YPTK), Indonesian Christian University of Tomohon (UKIT, North Sulawesi, Indonesia), Tomohon (North Sulawesi, Indonesia), March 17 2000.
  
  
• 1999. "Growing Old in the City". Paper presented at the Workshop for Ph.D.-Students 'Urban Health in Developing Countries: Research Priorities and Approaches', Institute of Anthropology, University of Basel; Swiss Tropical Institute (STI), Basel; Institut de Recherche sur l'Environnement Construit (IREC), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Basel, September 23 1999; Panel: 'The Expanding Agenda'.
  
  
• 1999. "Personnes âgées en Milieu urbain: le Point de Vue de l’Anthropologie médicale – Études de Cas dans les Pays du Sud". Paper presented at the "Institut Universitaire d'Études du Développement (IUED)", University of Geneva, June 15 1999.
  
  
• 1998. "Health and Illness Behaviour among the Minahasa (North Sulawesi, Indonesia)". Paper presented at the Academic Staff Meeting, University of Zürich, Institute of Anthropology, November 10 1998.
  
  
• 1998. "Mosquito, Mango and Magic: Malaria-Related Perceptions and Illness Behaviour among the Minahasa (North Sulawesi, Indonesia)". Paper presented at the IInd Conference of the European Association for South-East Asian Studies (EUROSEAS), Hamburg (Germany), September 3 1998; Panel: 'Healing in South-East Asia'.
  
  
• 1998. "Traditional Medicine as Manifestation of a Contextual Nature-/Culture Relationship". Paper presented in the Course 'Cultural Factors of Nature Relationships among Non-European Societies', Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Zürich (ETH Zürich), June 22 1998.
  
  
• 1998 / 1999. "Indonesia after the Fall of Bapak Suharto: Present and Future". Paper I and II presented in the Academic Project Group 'Indonesia', University of Zürich, Institute of Anthropology, June 10 1998 and January 6 1999.
  
  
• 1998. "Primary Health Care: Demands, Realization and Criticism". Paper presented at the Seminar 'Development Programs in the Health Sector: An Exchange of Experiences', Evangelical Development Agencies and Missions (EHM), Bern, May 18 1998.
  
  
• 1998. "Healing as Ritual in a Medical-Pluralistic Environment". Paper presented at the Seminar 'Heal me! Rituals in the Treatment of Sick People', Medical-Theological-Anthropological Working Group, University of Basel, Leuenberg/Basel, April 26 1998.
  
  
• 1998. "The Impact of the Asian Financial Crisis on Health and Wellbeing: Impressions from Minahasa, North Sulawesi". Paper presented in the Tropical Health Program, University of Queensland, Brisbane (Australia), Australian Centre for International and Tropical Health and Nutrition (ACITHN), March 18 1998.