Australian Medical Anthropology in the 21st Century
Convenor: Robyn Mobbs, Living Well Centre for Military and Veterans Health, University of Queensland-Herston
Panel description: After two and a half decades of gestation, medical anthropology is now visible within some Australian academic institutions and the eclecticism of the sub-discipline is already reflected within the endeavour. The intention of this session is to showcase the range of current work from critical medical anthropology to the applied from within the academy and outside: from the contemporary engagement of health and biomedicine with ‘the state’, ‘government and policy’, ‘the economic’ and the political’ in Australia and globally to ethno-medical systems in indigenous and pre-capitalist state societies. Papers on contemporary indigenous health and policy, cultural change (including changes in the notion of science) as well as the application of medical anthropology to service delivery are especially encouraged but not to the exclusion of others.
Abstracts
Alison Dundon, Australian National University - Growing Children with Strong Legs: HIV Prevention and Family Planning in Rural Papua New Guinea
Caroline Campbell, School of Humanities and Social Science, Newcastle University - ‘Mau Cepat Sembuh’: The Use of Medicinal Agents in Java
N'Deane Aaliyah Helajzen, Masters of Social Health (Medical Anthropology) student, School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne - Is There a Place for Harmful Traditional Practices to Continue in the West?
Kate Senior, Menzies School of Health Research - Community Perceptions of Chronic Disease in Remote Aboriginal Communities
Robyn Mobbs, Living Well Centre for Military and Veterans Health, University of Queensland-Herston - The Concept of Living Well in the 21st Century: Culturally Constructed Health Imperative or Biomedicalised Lifeway?
Fernanda Claudio, Division of International and Indigenous Health, School of Population Health, University of Queensland - Teaching Culture and Epidemiology to Public Health Students
