'Superstitions in Medicine' mural by Bernard Zakheim at UCSF Parnassus.
April 13, 2012
he panel is one of two sets of frescoes at UCSF Parnassus campus, for a total of twelve panels, the other being the Toland Hall frescoes (and the header picture of this blog) which depict early California medical history in ten consecutive panels. The murals were painted in 1938 by artist Bernard... Living and Dying in HIV-land: Political violence, health care, and experiences of HIV-positive Papuan women
April 12, 2012
Since 2001, once-remote communities in the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua have been drawn into aggressive development. Decentralization at the national level has allowed local leaders to put in motion new networks and linkages aimed at affirming the place of Papuan communities within... Plague, Fear, and Politics in San Francisco's Chinatown
April 10, 2012
A physician and historian, Guenter B. Biologizing Addiction: Ethnic Marketing, Pharmaceuticals, and Stratified Systems of Care.
April 08, 2012
Helena Hansen, Assistant Professor of Anthropology & Psychiatry at New York University, will give a talk on the biologicization of addiction next Wednesday, April 11, at 3:30 pm. Helena Hansen earned an MD and a Ph.D. Straightening up the records: history not only taught, but required at UCSF.
April 05, 2012
The story continues! After our post yesterday on this blog on the necessary correction to Rick Santorum's statement that UC campuses, including UCSF, do not teach American history, an official press release just came out today with additional clarifications. History at UCSF makes the news!
April 04, 2012
In case you have missed it, the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine was featured on the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday, in relation to a correction to Rick Santorum's erroneous statement that "seven or eight of the California system of universities — don’t even teach an... Dis-locations: Medical Migrations and Human Embryonic Stem Cell Therapies
March 31, 2012
Aditya Bharadwaj, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, will give a guest lecture on April 10th, titled 'Dis-locations: Medical Migrations and Human Embryonic Stem Cell Therapies in India'. RMCLAS Practice Talk this Tuesday 3/20: Jethro Hernández-Berrones on the Escuela Libre de Homeopatia de Mexico
March 18, 2012
"Cooperacion", Image from the Archives of the Free School of Homeopathy of Mexico Coming up at DAHSM: the Bio-Mediatization Machine, Making 'Swine Flu', Preparing for the Next Pandemic
March 15, 2012
As part of the Culpeper Seminar Series at DAHSM, in April we will have as guest speakers Charles L. Briggs (Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley), Daniel C. UC Berkeley Subjectivity and Culture Townsend Working Group
March 09, 2012
You are invited to join the Subjectivity and Culture Working Group next Tuesday, or later this Spring, as indicated in the program. Our meetings generally take place on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month, from 5:30 to 7, in the Gifford Room of the Department of Anthropology at UC Berkeley...