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The Symposium "Rethinking Anthropological and Transcultural Psychiatric Studies on Culture and Medicine" is held on 25th February, 2009

The symposium "Rethinking Anthropological and Transcultural Psychiatric Studies on Culture and Medicine: the Challenges of Interdisciplinarity, with Reference to Implications for Advanced Research on Logic and Sensibility" is to be held as follows.

* Admission Free, No reservation required.


Title: "Rethinking Anthropological and Transcultural Psychiatric Studies on Culture and Medicine: the Challenges of Interdisciplinarity, with Reference to Implications for Advanced Research on Logic and Sensibility"

Date and Time: Wednesday, 25th February, 2009; [Session I] 15:30 - 17:00, [Session II] 18:15 - 20:00

Venue: G-SEC Seminar Room, 4th floor, East Research Building, Mita Campus, Keio University

Keynote Speaker: Laurence J. Kirmayer (Professor, Department of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University)

Speakers and Themes:Laurence J. Kirmayer (Professor, Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University); "Cultural psychiatry, medical anthropology and the challenges of interdisciplinarity "

Toru Shimizu (Professor, Social History of Latin America, Keio University); "呪医と村人、そして私―ラテン・アメリカ社会史研究から医療民族誌へ、そして現代医療の諸問題へ?"

Emiko Namihira (Professor Emeritus, Medical Anthropology, Ochanomizu University); "日本における文化と医療の研究―医学史から医療人類学まで"

Commentator:Naoko Miyaji (Professor, Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry, Hitotsubashi University)

Chikako Ozawa-de Silva (Associate Professor, Social Anthropology and Medical Anthropology, Emory University)

Chair: Keizo Miyasaka (Professor, Cultural Anthropology, Keio University)

*Interpreter: Gergely Mohácsi (Medical Anthropology, The University of Tokyo)

Planned and Organized by:Philosophy and Cultural Anthropology Unit, Global COE CARLS

Co-Organized by: Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology Society for the Study of History of Medicine

Reference (in Japanese): 公開シンポジウム<文化と医療>再考―人類学と文化精神医学の相互関与性の現在