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Dienstag | 17.15 Uhr | Ivan Illich’s Medical Nemesis in a Time of Covid: ‘The Expropriation of Health’ (ONLINE ONLY) Medical Anthropology Forum Babette Babich, Department of Philosophy, Fordham University, New York (USA) & Department of Philosophy, Religions and Liberal Arts, University of Winchester (UK) Since Ivan Illich’s original publication of Medical Nemesis, first as an article in the medical journal, the Lancet and as best-selling book, medical professionals have returned again and again to review his claims. Illich had argued the ubiquity and stubborn durability iatrogenic illness/injury, physician induced harm (inadvertent) to their patients as a direct consequence of testing and treatment. The circumstance of iatrogenic harm has only increased since Illich’s first publication. No medical professional denies this and thus the tendency in all good faith to revisit the text not only to understand what he argues but also in order to remain mindful of the problems highlighted. In a time of Covid or pandemic, this essay revisits Illich’s theme of the expropriation of health quite as Illich’s Medical Nemesis remains timely. Our culture seems to have become increasingly medicalized, not at one’s free option but via directive or ‘mandate’ and hence by way of that other institution Illich also criticized the school quite as the school and the university would today seem exemplify the medicalization of life perhaps in the front line. It is key to argument I seek to make that Illich’s text for all its radicality remains an intern’s rather than not an extern’s perspective, his critique speaks priest to priest, healer to healer. Streaming / Video URL https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83212239850?pwd=NXV4czlSVnI1cTJsRHk3VUFaenB5UT09 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/ethno/ Kontakt Alle Termine der Veranstaltung 'Medical Anthropology Forum - Sommersemester 2022': 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, 24. Mai 2022, 17.15 Uhr Dr. Bridget Bradley, University of St Andrews (UK),
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