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Biosocial Medical Anthropology in the Time of Covid-19. New Challenges and Opportunities.

April 29, 2020 at 10:00 am

SAHRA GIBBON, LEWIS DALY, AARON PARKHURST, CARRIE RYAN, GUL DENIZ SALALI AND ALEX TASKER As the events of the past few months …

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#Ageing and #technology: Whose concerns?

I take issue with innovation. To be sure, I admire the creative and practical potential of it, which is what most innovation …

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#Ageing and #technology: Whose concerns?

December 24, 2016 at 9:00 am

I take issue with innovation. To be sure, I admire the creative and practical potential of it, which is what most innovation …

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#Ageing and #technology: Whose concerns?

I take issue with innovation. To be sure, I admire the creative and practical potential of it, which is what most innovation …

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#Ageing and Care in a ‘Man’s World’

December 23, 2016 at 9:00 am

I am thrown into an image: Two figures climbing steep stone stairs, so tall that I cannot see what lies at the …

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#Ageing and Care in a ‘Man’s World’

I am thrown into an image: Two figures climbing steep stone stairs, so tall that I cannot see what lies at the …

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#Ageing and Care in a ‘Man’s World’

I am thrown into an image: Two figures climbing steep stone stairs, so tall that I cannot see what lies at the …

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Eldercare in South Africa: Dreaming of a White Paper Christmas #ageing

December 22, 2016 at 9:00 am

About a year ago around Christmas, South African Minister of Health Aaron Motsoaledi and ANC colleagues released the anticipated White Paper on …

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Eldercare in South Africa: Dreaming of a White Paper Christmas #ageing

About a year ago around Christmas, South African Minister of Health Aaron Motsoaledi and ANC colleagues released the anticipated White Paper on …

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(Mis)Fortune of #ageing

December 21, 2016 at 9:00 am

It’s really bad with him. There are metastases in his head. He can stay at home tonight, and tomorrow night he has …

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REDUX: (Mis)Fortune of #ageing

December 21, 2016 at 9:00 am

Originally published the 21st of December 2016. *** It’s really bad with him. There are metastases in his head. He can stay …

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Time-ing Out of Old Age with Marc Augé #ageing

December 20, 2016 at 9:00 am

I have carried Marc Augé’s book Everyone Dies Young (New York: Columbia University Press 2016), with me everywhere these past two months. …

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ANTHROPOLOGY FOR AN #AGEING PLANET

December 19, 2016 at 9:00 am

When I teach undergraduates about ageing in anthropology, I sometimes begin by stating the very mundane fact that none of us are …

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ANTHROPOLOGY FOR AN #AGEING PLANET

When I teach undergraduates about ageing in anthropology, I sometimes begin by stating the very mundane fact that none of us are …

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ANTHROPOLOGY FOR AN #AGEING PLANET

When I teach undergraduates about ageing in anthropology, I sometimes begin by stating the very mundane fact that none of us are …

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Imploding Families

September 19, 2015 at 7:35 am

Arriving at work today I was met by my coworker who wanted to talk. We’ve worked together for about three years and …

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A stubborn conundrum

August 3, 2015 at 1:54 am

Professor Margaret Lock has published an exhaustive ethnography of Alzheimer disease research in her latest book, The Alzheimer Conundrum. I recently reviewed this …

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Jilted…

May 11, 2015 at 6:13 am

In Zasulauks neighborhood In Lady Baiba’s living room a flimsy photo hangs on the wall of a large companion on Candera street. …

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