Vienna, Josephinum: Institute for History of Medicine – October 14, 2000
Symposium of the Work Group „Medical Anthropology” of the German Society for Social Anthropology:
“Medical Terms in a Field of Tension between Global Concepts and Local Application”
In co-operation with:
FIKUS (Research Institute for Cultural and Social Sciences)
Institute for the History of Medicine, Department of Ethno-medicine at the University of Vienna
Program
| 9.00 – 9.10 | Introduction and welcome (Viola Hörbst) |
| Chair: Elsbeth Kneuper | |
| 9.10 – 9.30 | Angelika Wolf, Berlin Introduction to some theoretical approaches to the globalization debate |
| 9.30 – 10.00 | Bernhard Hadolt / Monika Lengauer, Wien Of ovarian stimulation and sperm preparation: An Actor-Network-Perspective of In-Vitro-Fertilization |
| Chair: Hansjörg Dilger | |
| 10.00 – 10.30 | Tina Otten, Berlin Indigenous and Biomedical Concepts of Disease among the Desya, India? |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.00 – 11.30 | Viola Hörbst, München Between Global Claims and Localization: Medical Values among the Cora, Mexico |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Maria Delius, München Disturbances in the postpartum period – an unsolved issue for biomedicine |
| 12.00 – 12.30 | Yvonne Adam, Freiburg Travelling from place to place – the contribution of migrants and cultural anthropology to globalization |
| 12.30 – 14.00 | Lunch break |
| 14.00 – 14.30 | Michael Knipper, Bonn What is disease? The “ontological term disease” between theoretical disapproval and global usage |
| 14.30 – 15.00 | Angelika Wolf, Berlin Aids and Kanyera in Malawi: Local answers to a global phenomenon |
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Hansjörg Dilger Berlin ‘Living PositHIVely in Tanzania’: the global dynamics of disease with regard to international and local AIDS work |
| 15.30 – 16.00 | Coffee break |
| Chair: Viola Hörbst | |
| 16.00 – 16.30 | Brigit Obrist van Eeuwijk, Basel Appropriate nutrition in Papua New Guinea: Claim and Reality |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Elsbeth Kneuper, Tübingen Natural birth as an achievement of civilization – Ethno-medical implications for the birth scene at a university town in Southwest Germany |
| 17.00 – 17.10 | Pause |
| 17.10 – 18.00 | Brigit Obrist van Eeuwijk, Basel und Bernhard Hadolt, Wien Consolidation of the discussed aspects of globalization and medical knowledge |
| Final discussion |