The second “Health in Transition” conference will be organized at the Romanian Academy of Sciences, in Bucharest, from the 7 to 8 June 2012.
The main aim of this Conference is to bring together medical anthropologists and social science healthcare researchers with an interest in the changes affecting health and medical care in post-socialist countries. The Conference will also discover the challenges of market economy and social upheaval faced by medical systems during the last two decades in the region.
Moreover, conference aspires to offer a forum for debates over the place of anthropology amongst other social sciences in the region. The conference will also focus on the need for enhanced awareness and acknowledgment of medical anthropology while emphasizing its potential for applied, critical and engaged research.
With a focus on Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe as well as the former Soviet Union, organizers invite contributions based on ethnographic research, including, but not limited to:
•Contemporary forms of biomedical care, ethics and governance;
•Impact of Europeanization and globalization on local health practices
•New patterns of medical approaches to disease;
•Intersections of health with gender, ethnicity and other markers of social difference
•Personhood, the body and bio-politics;
•Development of health-related professions;
•Health and healthcare among migrant and refugee populations;
•Poverty and unequal access to health;
•State ownership and privatization of health care
•Uses of ethnography in health policy and practice
•Medical anthropology and the question of post-socialism
This call for papers is open to social science healthcare and medical anthropologists with an interest in the changes affecting health and medical care in post-socialist countries. The conference fee is of 10 Euros for presenters and participants which is to be paid during on-site registration.
The deadline for abstracts (300 to 400 words) is 20 February 2012. Complete papers are due by 7 May 2012.
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