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Dienstag | 17.15 Uhr | Selling Disease: Professional Patients and Disease Commodification in Medical Markets. Medical Anthropology Forum - Wintersemester 2021/22 Dr. Abdalla Mustafa, Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology This talk sheds light on emerging subjectivities and collective actions of a group of patients in Egypt, whom I call “professional patients.” These patients, to reverse their marginality, unemployment status and to gain more social roles, they utilize their ailing bodies and diseases to generate income. Towards this end, this group commodifies and maintains disease, and sells knowledge about it by engaging in disease-work. Engaging in disease work is a measure among this group to improve their economic and social conditions and accordingly to reshape their precarity. In this regard, I argue that professional patients, by commodifying their disease and entering disease markets, they transfigure their disease into a generative force that guarantees them social empowerment, economic autonomy and opens new possibilities for them and their families to gain not only economic capital, but also social capital that enable them to improve their livelihoods and to manage disease itself. Such activities reveal a situation in which disease has gained an economic value. It has been transfigured into a capital and has become, for certain groups, a primary source of income. Streaming / Video URL https://zoom.us/j/95968345236?pwd=M0dCMlBMVDJFVnljZWVzMmh0d0tVUT09 Homepage Veranstaltung https://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/ethno/mahassa/index.php?language=de&page=medicalAntWorkGroup Veranstalter Südasien-Institut, Abteilung Ethnologie Homepage Veranstalter https://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/en/index.php/ Kontakt Alle Termine der Veranstaltung 'Medical Anthropology Forum - Wintersemester 2021/22': The forum as a public event was designed to be a space where senior students and researchers could gather with MAHASSA students and other interested parties to discover and discuss current themes in medical anthropology. Medical Anthropology raises important intellectual and scientific questions about human suffering and wellbeing, and about the human body in its relation to culture and society. This is a “survey course,” meaning that we will survey the most important topics in this field, including illness and suffering, ethnomedicine, ritual healing, the anthropology of the body, mental health and culture, medical pluralism and hegemony, critical medical anthropology, science technology and medicine studies, and others. Dienstag, 23. November 2021, 17.15 Uhr Prof. Dr. Harish Naraindas, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (Indien), School of Social Sciences Dienstag, 07. Dezember 2021, 17.15 Uhr Selling Disease: Professional Patients and Disease Commodification in Medical Markets. Dr. Abdalla Mustafa, Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology Dienstag, 21. Dezember 2021, 17.15 Uhr Dr. Ananda Chopra, Habichtswaldklinik Kassel, Ayurveda Department Dienstag, 11. Januar 2022, 17.15 Uhr Globalizing Virtual Care: Doing Anthropology in a Transdisciplinary Global Health Consortium Dr. Dominik Mattes, Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthopology Dienstag, 01. Februar 2022, 17.15 Uhr Ambivalence of Healing Encounters: The (A)symmetry Between Healers and Patients Dr. Ehler Voss, University of Siegen, Anthropology Department |