Medical anthropology against war.

نویسنده

  • Marcia C Inhorn
چکیده

In my 2006 presidential address on “Medical Anthropology at the Intersections,” I attempted to convey all of my high hopes for medical anthropology in the new millennium (Inhorn 2007). We are nearly 50 years old as a discipline, and we are on the verge of numerous, exciting intersections with multiple fields. At the 2007 meeting, I announced our plans for the first independent Society for Medical Anthropology (SMA) conference in 20 years, entitled “Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Celebrating 50 Years of Interdisciplinarity,” to be held at Yale University, Sept. 24–27, 2009. Although our Friday night SMA event is mostly a time for celebration, I felt compelled to end my SMA presidency on a more serious note. I am both a medical anthropologist and an area studies scholar. For most of the period since September 11, 2001, I have been involved in directing various centers for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, and I have spent much of 2007 on research leave in the Middle East, a region that is currently wracked with violence. Thus, I wanted to speak that evening on the theme “Medical Anthropology against War,” sharing with you my ruminations over the deeply troubling, violent state of world affairs, as well as my chagrin over medical anthropology’s relative apathy in the face of so much danger.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Medical anthropology quarterly

دوره 22 4  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2008