Archive of Medical Anthropology Forum Lectures |
16.10.12 Prof. Dr. William Sax, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University
Psychiatry and Ritual Healing in India
06.11.12 Dr. Anand Samir Chopra, Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”, Heidelberg University
From "Crazy" to "Psychotic": The Diagnostic Term Unmada in Classical and Contemporary Ayurvedic Literature
20.11.12 Dr. Verena Keck, Institute of Anthropology, Heidelberg University
A Medical Anthropological Perspective on a Neurological Disease in Guam, Micronesia
04.12.12 Dr. Christian Strümpell, Dr. Adrian Loerbroks, Hasan Ashraf and Maria Steinisch, Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”, Heidelberg University
The Concept of Stress and Stress-relief in a Transcultural Perspective: An Ethno-epidemiological Study
11.12.12 Prof. Dr. Joop de Jong, Universities of Amsterdam, Boston and Rhodes
Toward a Culture-informed Epidemiology: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Research in Transcultural Contexts
15.01.13 Prof. Dr. Joachim Funke, Institute of Psychology, Heidelberg University
Cooperation between Anthropology and Psychology: Opportunities and Problems
29.01.13 Dr. Rubina Jasani, Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, University of Manchester
Social Suffering and Mental Illness amongst South Asian Migrants in the UK
02.05.12 Daniela Manke, M.A., Network Aging Research, Heidelberg University
Negotiating Dementia in the Research Process: A Case Study among Turkish Migrants in Germany
16.05.12 Dr. Eszter Spät, Dept. of Medieval Studies, Central European University
Budapest
Good Jinn - Bad Jinn: Healing Jinn-affliction among the Yezidis of Iraqi Kur-distan
30.05.12 Maria Steinisch, Mannheim Institute of Public Health, Heidelberg University
Interdisciplinary Challenges: An Anthropo-Epidemiological Research Project on Work Stress among Garments Workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh
13.06.12 Juliane Dame, Dipl.-Geogr., South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University
Food, Nutrition and Livelihoods in Ladakh (Indian Himalayas): A Geographical Perspective
27.06.12 Nazli Balkir, M.A., Institute of Psychology, Heidelberg University
Mental Illness Models and Help Seeking Behaviors among Turkish Immigrant Patients in Europe
11.07.12 Sandra Bärnreuther, M.A., Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”, Heidelberg University
Biomedical Lives: Doing Fieldwork on In Vitro Fertilization in Delhi
26.10.2011 Birgit Eißner, M.A., Institute of Ethnology, Heidelberg University.
When Western Concepts Become Global Disorders: "Trauma" in the Context of Development Aid
09.11.2011 Anna-Lena Wolf, Institute of Ethnology, Heidelberg University.
Socio-cultural Perspectives on the Stigmatization of People with Learning Difficulties - A Case-Study of Varanasi
30.11.2011 Dr. Karin Polit, SFB 619 "Ritual Dynamics", Heidelberg University.
Too Young to Die: Suicide, Stress and Education in South Asia
07.12.2011 Nike-Ann Schröder, M.A., Ph.D. Candidate, Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context", Heidelberg University.
Life Challenges and Ritual Healing - Doing Fieldwork, Getting Involved and Sharing Experiences with Tibetan Refugees in Ladakh
21.12.2011 Hasan Ashraf, M.A., Ph.D. Candidate, Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context", Heidelberg University.
"Ethnographic Negotiations" in the "Field" - a Shared Life Experience with the Dhaka Ready-made Garment Factory Workers and beyond
25.01.2012 Dr. Marion Herz, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg.
Knowledge of Transmission - Transmission of Knowledge. A Liberal Arts Scholar in the Bio-medical Laboratory of Cervix Carcinoma Research at the DKFZ (Heidelberg)
20.04.2011 Eva Ambos, M.A. Ph.D. Candidate, Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a global context", Heidelberg University.
"A Celebration of Demons? Healing Rituals in Sri Lanka."
11.05.2011 Tanja Ahlin MA Health and Society in South Asia, Heidelberg University.
"Technology and Cultural (R)evolutions: Can Telemedicine Give Power to the Patients?"
25.05.2011 Dr. Ananda Samir Chopra, Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a global context", Heidelberg University.
"Traditional Ayurveda in the 21st century - a case-study of an Ayurvedic practice in Kerala, India."
08.06.2011 Dr. Alexandra Kraatz, Institut für Orient- und Asienwissenschaften, Universität Bonn.
"Traditional Healing rituals in Indonesia."
06.07.2011 Christina Wippermann M.A., Ph.D. Candidate, SFB 619 “Ritual Dynamcis”, Heidelberg University.
" Secrets of the forest" – Ritual Healing with herbal plants in the rural and tribal area of India, Gujarat and Rajasthan.
13.07.2011 Dr. Johannes Quack, Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a global context", Heidelberg University.
"Undocumented migrants' limitations and strategies in accessing healthcare in Germany: A case study of Punjabis."
03.11.2010 Britta Rutert, M.A. Ph.D. Candidate, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin.
"Bioprospecting in South Africa: New Hopes, Old Troubles"
08.12.2010 Christoph Cyranski, M.A., Ph.D. Candidate, Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a global context", Heidelberg University.
"Shirodhara' - Ayurveda's Remedy for Stressed Europeans"
12.01.2011 Dr. Valérie R. Louis, Institute of Public Health, Heidelberg University.
"Climate Change and Health."
19.01.2011 Prof. Kalinga Tudor Silva, Department of Sociology, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
"Suicide and War in Sri Lanka."
02.02.2011 Susann Huschke, M.A. Ph.D. Candidate, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin.
"Illness and Irregular Migration. A field study on undocumented Latin American migrants in Berlin."
21.04.2010 Kira Schmidt Stiedenroth, M.A. Health and Society in South Asia, Heidelberg University.
"Infertility in Pakistan: Experience and Health Seeking Behavior among Baloch Women in a Karachi Slum."
05.05.2010 Gen Studer, M.A. Health and Society in South Asia, Heidelberg University.
"Drowning in Enchanted Waters. The role of Practiced Islam in Mental Health Nosology and Treatment Seeking Behaviors Demonstrated in Urban Bangladesh."
19.05.2010 Dr. Sheela Saravanan, Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a global context", Heidelberg University.
"Objectification of gestational mothers in commercial surrogacy in India.""'Like a spring in the desert' - Care and Self-Care within a charismatic Filipino migrant community."
30.06.2010 Dr. Tina Otten, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology Section, Ruhr-University Bochum.
"Bali Jatra: recent changes in a ritual for wealth and well-being.""Transnational Industrialization and Formation of Stress amongst the Female Garment Factory Workers in Bangladesh."
18.11.2009 Dr. Claudia Lang, Eva Jansen, M.A., Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU Munich
"Basic concepts of Traditional Indian Medicine (Ayurveda) and it's implications in Europe."
"Impact of Micro Finance Projects on Woman's Social Position and Gender Relation in South India. A case study."
27.01.2010 Dr. Tina Otten, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology Section. Ruhr-University Bochum
"Bali Jatra: recent changes in a ritual for wealth and well-being.""Cultural sensitive introduction of HIV-AIDS Prevention by initiation ritual of rural girls in Mozambique"
"Aims of the anti-superstition bill. How traditional healing gets legally contested (India, Maharashtra)"
" 'When the field is a clinic': An ethnography on the interaction between Traditional Chinese Medicine and Psychosomatic Medicine in a German clinic."
An ethnographic study about the inter-relationship between stigma and resources in and around a Leprosy Colony in South India"
"Of Cords, Midwifery and the Afterbirth: Local Birthing Practices and the Management of the Third Stage of Labour"
"When the water changes - on the connection between environment and health among the Gaddi. (Himachal Pradesh, India)"
