Medical Anthropology in Europe

Elisabeth Hsu is Professor in Anthropology at the University of Oxford, UK, where she co-founded and convenes the Medical Anthropology teaching and research programme. Caroline Potter is Lecturer in Medical Anthropology at Oxford, UK, where she obtained her doctorate in 2007 within this programme and assisted in building it up between 2008 and 2014.

• Part I 1. Introduction to Part I: Medical anthropology in Europe: shaping the field Elisabeth Hsu and Caroline Potter with vignette by Anita Hardon and Claire Beaudevin 2. Alien origins: xenophilia and the rise of medical anthropology in the Netherlands Sjaak van der Geest with vignette by Sylvie Fainzang 3. Itineraries and specificities of Italian medical anthropology Tullio Seppilli 4. Before and after fieldwork: ingredients for an ethnography of illness Gilbert Lewis with vignette by Jean Benoist 5. What about Ethnomedizin? Reflections on the early days of medical anthropologies in German-speaking countries Ruth Kutalek, Verena C. Münzenmeier and Armin Prinz with vignettes by Hansjörg Dilger, Peter van Eeuwijk, and Bernhard Hadolt Part II 6. Introduction to Part II: Medical anthropology in Europe – quo vadis? Elisabeth Hsu 7. Chronicity and control: framing ‘noncommunicable diseases’ in Africa Susan Reynolds Whyte 8. ‘I am also a human being!’ Antiretroviral treatment in local moral worlds Dominik Mattes 9. ‘When there were only gods, then there was no disease, no need for doctors’: forsaken deities and weakened bodies in the Indian Himalayas Serena Bindi 10. Second nature: on Gramsci’s anthropology Giovanni Pizza 11. Of divinatory connaissance in South-Saharan Africa: the bodiliness of perception, inter-subjectivity and inter-world resonance René Devisch 12. Health care decisions by Sukuma ‘peasant intellectuals’: a case of radical empiricism? Koen Stroeken