We convene a series of Medical Anthropology Research Seminars each year during Michaelmas or Hilary terms. Through these seminars our students have opportunities for in-depth discussion with both young researchers (doctoral or post-doctoral level) and leaders in the field, who represent a wide range of topical and ethnographic specialties.
Anthropological Approaches to Self Care (MT 2018 seminar series)
Past seminar series included:
- Smell, taste, Food and Disease (MT 2017)
- Mental Health: Medical Anthropological Approaches (MT 2016)
- Evolutionary Thinking in Medicine (HT 2016)
- Ethnography in Focus (HT 2015)
- Medical Anthropology (HT 2014)
- Neoliberalism and Health (HT 2013)
- The Anthropology of Genomics and Biomedical Technologies (HT 2012)
- Psychiatric Anthropology and Clinical Ethnography (HT 2011)
- Bodies in Transformation (HT 2010)
- Materiality in Medicine (HT 2009)
- Vitality-enhancing Body Substances (ESRC-funded, HT 2008)
- Medical Ecology of Childhood (HT 2007)
- Souls and Spirits in the Context of Healing (HT 2006)
- Anthropology and Epidemiology (HT 2005)
- Ethnobotany, Health and Healing (HT 2004)
- Complementary and Alternative Medicines (CAM): Anthropological Perspectives (HT 2003)
- The Human Genome, the New Genetics, and Anthropology (HT 2002)
Medical anthropologists at Oxford convene additional ongoing seminars through specialist research groups:
Medical anthropologists also take part in several informal discussion groups and student-led seminars, which are sometimes College-based.
