HistArchers,
My colleagues Hannah Moots ([log in to unmask]), David Pickel ([log in to unmask]), Bright Zhou ([log in to unmask]) and I are organizing a session for the 2017 SAA Conference in Vancouver, titled "Archaeological Perspectives Towards Medicine and Global Health". While the abstract might suggest a focus on biology, genetics and disease ecology, we are very interested in a wide variety of perspectives towards medical practices and global health. We welcome submissions presenting topics that include, but are not limited to:
-culturally contextualized and historically situated perspectives towards the body, health and disease
-phenomenology and the embodied experience of disease
-social politics of medicine
-the materiality of medical practice
-osteological, ecological and genetic investigations relating to health and disease
-proposals for novel methodological and theoretical approaches to the investigation of health and physical well-being
-suggestions for the potential contributions of archaeological analyses to contemporary global health discourse (especially as it pertains to treatment, research, and policy)
We invite your comments and feedback, and look forward to having the opportunity to collaborate with you all in Vancouver this coming spring!
A link to the session abstract is attached below, and can also be found at:
https://www.academia.edu/27732872/SAA_2017_-_Call_for_Papers-_Archaeological_Perspectives_towards_Medicine_and_Global_Health
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SAA 2017 - Call for Papers- Archaeological Perspectives towards Medicine and Global Health
For more information or to express interest please contact Claire Maass at [log in to unmask]
Very best,
Claire Maass
PhD Student in Anthropology
Stanford University
Main Quad Building 50, 450 Serra Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-2034
Archaeological Perspectives Towards Medicine and Global Health
With recent outbreaks of infectious diseases such as Ebola and Zika and rising rates of chronic disease such as asthma and obesity worldwide, there has been a growing awareness of the urgency to develop novel approaches to public health and the investigation of disease. As biomedical and genomic research generate new data, knowledge, and methods of treatment, many questions remain about the evolution, proliferation and history of a number of conditions of global health concern. Archaeology, as both a methodological approach and an analytical framework, has a unique potential to contribute to these efforts. In particular, collaborations with the biological and ecological sciences can produce a finer-grained narrative of how specific diseases and health conditions proliferated in the past, and the ways in which humans have responded to these issues. When combined with social theory and history, these approaches offer a historical perspective that can inform preventative and treatment strategies for the future. This session aims to showcase archaeological research into issues related to global health and medicine to date, and to offer a creative space for archaeologists to shape discourse that will drive future investigations.
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