Every society is historically and currently familiar with different and shifting explanations for health and illness, and knows of different approaches to maintain the former and treat the latter. Healers, doctors, and patients are thus confronted with a multitude of partially contradictory therapies. Similar to non-biomedical therapies, biomedicine itself is fragmented into differing approaches. Faced with the division of the body and corresponding medical experts for specific body parts, patients as well as healers and doctors have to navigate partially contradictory assessments of the causes of illnesses and their treatment. Healing therefore requires cooperation with and without consensus between the most diverse actors. This conference seeks to examine such historical and current practices of healing cooperations around the world. Questions for contributions might include:
- How are compromises and/or syntheses in differing constellations achieved in practice?
- What kind of entities (e.g. humans, viruses, spirits, bacteria, machines, plants, genes, etc.) are involved and which negotiations lead to which results?
- How are specific healing situations connected to organized care facilities and structures and which tensions may arise?
- What kind of effects are created by alternating and/or simultaneously undergoing divergent and/or contradictory therapies?
- What kind of media, technologies, and infrastructures are involved in healing cooperations and how do they create various healing publics?
The aim of the conference is the joint discussion of different practices of healing cooperations, which we conceive as the laborious processing of ill-structured problems and open-ended ways of healing.
Conference Language: German and English
Please register for the conference at sekretariat@sfb1187.uni-siegen.de No conference fees are charged. Conference drinks and food are complimentary, except for the dinner on Friday.
Physicians and psychotherapists can earn 16 CME points for attending the conference.
Venue
Campus Herrengarten
Raum AH 217/218
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen
Links
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Thursday, 29 June 2017
Welcome
Cornelius Schubert & Ehler Voss
Keynote: Intertwining Medicine, Mediums and New Media: A media/medical anthropological view on healing and cooperation in a globalized world
Cora Bender
1 slide presentations of all presenters / 90 seconds each in alphabetical order
Reception
Friday, 30 June 2017
SESSION I – NEGOTIATED (DIS)ORDERS
Rettungsmedizin in Deutschland: Zeitgeschichtliche Perspektiven auf ein konfliktreiches Berufsfeld (1949-2010)
Pierre Pfütsch
Minderheitenmedizin und Pathologie: Konflikt, Austausch und (Heilungs?)Kooperationen zwischen Genetikern und Gehörlosen in den USA, 1960-2000
Marion Schmidt
„In Deutschland bist du anders krank.“ Aushandlungsprozesse um ‚krank‘- und ‚gesund sein‘ Geflüchteter
Natalie Gies-Powroznik
Coffee Break
SESSION II – POPULARISED HEALINGS
Mind-Body Medizin im Kontext von Studien zu Ayurveda und Yoga
Michael Jeitler & Clemens Eisenmann
Dorfheilpraktiken in der Asow-Region: Akteure und Kooperationen
Julia Butschatskaja
Lunch (brown bag)
SESSION III – COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINES
Lasting or Fragile Cooperations: Complementary Medicine in Healthcare Systems of Post-Soviet Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
Danuta Penkala-Gawęcka
Patients’ Health Work in a Pluralistic Medical Setting
Alexandra Ciocănel
“My Dream Is to Bring Together Chinese and Western Medicine”: Re-defining the Concept of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Estonia
Katre Koppel
Coffee Break
SESSION IV – AMBIVALENT PARTNERS
Healing Cooperations of Spiritism, Biomedicine and Psychiatry in Brazil - A model for complementary therapy in Europe?
Helmar Kurz
Healing cooperations in Brazilian Candomblé
Hannah Lesshafft
Turbulent beings. The phenomenon of curse in post-Soviet Tuva, Siberia
Malgorzata Stelmaszyk
AGEM Members Meeting
Dinner (Restaurant Hackermann, at your own expense)
Saturday, 1 July 2017
SESSION V – CHRONIC COLLECTIVES
Living and working with the new temporalities cystic fibrosis: intergenerational and interdisciplinary ecologies of care and knowledge translation in highly specialized medicine
Stefan Reinsch
Redeeming words – the triangulated analogy of philosophy, therapy and mythology in Wittgenstein
Christian Erbacher
Coffee Break
SESSION VI – PARTIAL AGENCIES
Diet-Body-Brain/Society – Eine ethnosoziologische Analyse von Legitimationsprozessen alimentärer Gesundheitsnetzwerke
Daniel Kofahl
Heilungskooperationen zwischen Gehirn und Computer
Monika Kalmbach-Özdem
Heilen und Relationieren mit und durch Blut. Ethnographie der alltäglichen Heilungsarbeit mit Blut
Clément Dréano
Final Discussion
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