Biannual DGV Meeting 1997, Frankfurt: “The Thing”
Panel of the Work Group “Medical Anthropology” on 10 October 1997: “Research Perspectives and Professional Fields of Medical Anthropology in Germany”
I. Why Medical Anthropology and not Ethno-medicine?
- Viola Hörbst: basic theses and expansion of his 1980s model
- Gabi Alex: Medical Anthropology in the Anglo-American world
II. Research perspectives of Medical Anthropology
- Angelika Wolf: National health politics and socio-cultural factors in health care in Malawi using the example of AIDS
III. Professional fields and areas of application of Medical Anthropology
- Viola Hörbst: Migration and medicine: report about the work of the Bavarian Centre for Trans-cultural Medicine
- Angelika Wolf: Teaching in classes for nursing, counseling, therapy and medicine