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Dienstag | 17.15 Uhr | Cool Regimen to an Imagery of the Kill: The Historical Trajectory from Smallpox Variolation to Covid Vaccination, 1731-2021 Medical Anthropology Forum - Wintersemester 2021/22
Prof. Dr. Harish Naraindas, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (Indien), School of Social Sciences The advent of vaccination in 1804 leads to a hiatus between care and welfare. Shoolbred, the smallpox commissioner, bemoans the fact that the Indians’ refusal to be vaccinated is because they have no concept of the “public”. The ostensible refusal may afford us a perspective on contemporary “vaccine hesitancy” and allow us to see the present as part of a trajectory that begins in early eighteenth-century England with the import of variolation from the East. Variolation in India, signalled through Coult’s note of 1731, is one act in a five-act play that ensures “public welfare” through “individual care”. The other four acts, enacted when a person naturally contracts smallpox, sacralises the patient as he becomes the repository of the smallpox deity. Premised on an alternative epistemology, it blurs the boundary between medicine and religion. While variolation mimics this sacralisation, vaccination, the prototype prophylactic, disembeds the patient from a therapeutics of “care” and inaugurates a “public”. This leads to a transformation from sacralised selves and a “cool regimen”, to state imposed vaccination and an imagery of the kill. 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 Cool Regimen to an Imagery of the Kill: The Historical Trajectory from Smallpox Variolation to Covid Vaccination, 1731-2021 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 |