The Way we were

De vez en cuando sucede. Yolanda Bodoque encuentra en la actual catalogación del Arxiu d'Etnografia de Catalunya, un par de videos Betacam que se grabaron durante las primeras Jornadas de Antropología de la Medicina en 1982. Lo mandamos digitalizar. Hay una bobina con44 minutos de material. Una parte del audio se ha perdido. Contiene una parte de la mesa redonda que cerró el coloquio y diez minutos de una intervención de Lluis Mallart. En la mesa redonda Jesús de Miguel dice que ese es un momento fundacional, histórico. Lo fue. Al mismo tiempo que los franceses, al mismo tiempo que los británicos. No quiero glosar ese contenido sonoro. Confrontado a la edición del mismo he optado por un tratamiento puramente arqueológico: he retocado planos, he aligerado el documento de las pausas de voz, he eliminado fragmentos en mal estado en la cinta original. No hay en ello ninguna intención artística, son dos documentos históricos de nuestra memoria personal y de nuestra memoria institucional y personal. Hay muchas caras, en ses habits anciens/ que dans une autre existence peut-être/ j'ai déjà vu /et dont je me souviens.

La conferencia de Lluis Mallart

Jornadas de Anropologia de la Medicina: ponencia de Lluis Mallart (1982, Tarragona) from Josep M. Comelles on Vimeo.

This video was recorded in December 1982 during the Primeres Jornades d'Antropologia de la Medicina, the foundational act of medical anthropology in Spain. This 10 minutes clip contents the Lluis Mallart Lecture about a native healer in Nsola, Cameroon

Primeres Jornades d'Antropologia de la Medicina. Mesa redonda de clausura (Tarragona 1982) from Josep M. Comelles on Vimeo.

The video was recorded in Betacam in December 1982 during the foundational event of medical anthropology in Spain. The actual edition has reduced ina 10% the lenght, and revised the color and the framing.

Salud y moralidad

Jonathan M. Metzl and Anna Kirkland, editors

2010 Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality

New York: NYU Press.

Against Health argues that health is a concept, a norm, and a set of bodily practices whose ideological work is often rendered invisible by the assumption that it is a monolithic, universal good, and that disparities in the incidence and prevalence of disease are closely linked to disparities in income and social support.  The book's stand against health is not a stand against the authenticity of people's attempts to ward off suffering. Against Health instead claims that individual strivings for health are, in some instances, rendered more difficult by the ways in which health is culturally configured and socially sustained. The authors unpack the divergent cultural  meanings of health and explore the ideologies involved in its construction, presenting strategies for moving forward and developing deeper, more productive, and indeed healthier interactions about our bodies.

http://www.nyupress.org/webchapters/metzl_intro.pdf

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/side-effects/201012/what-is-health-increasingly-it-s-defined-the-absence-abnormality

Contents:

Introduction: Why Against Health?, Jonathan M. Metzl, University of Michigan

WHAT IS HEALTH, ANYWAY?

What is Health and How Do You Get It?  Richard Klein, Cornell University

Risky Bigness: On Obesity, Eating, And The Ambiguity Of Health.

Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago

Against Global Health? Arbitrating Science, Non-Science, and Nonsense

through Health.  Vincanne Adams, University of California, San

Francisco

SEEING HEALTH THROUGH MORALITY

The Social Immorality of Health in the Gene Age: Race, Disability, and

Inequality.   Dorothy Roberts, Northwestern University

Fat Panic and the Invisible Morality.  Kathleen LeBesco, Marymount

Manhattan College

Against Breastfeeding (Sometimes).  Joan Wolf, Texas A&M University

MAKING HEALTH AND DISEASE

Pharmaceutical Propaganda.  Carl Elliott, University of Minnesota

The Strangely Passive-Aggressive History of Passive-Aggressive

Disorder.  Christopher Lane, Northwestern University

Obsession: Against Mental Health.  Lennard Davis, University of

Illinois at Chicago

Atomic Health, or How Nuclear Terror Shaped American Notions of Death.

Joseph Masco, University of Chicago

PLEASURE AND PAIN AFTER HEALTH

How Much Sex is Healthy?: The Pleasures of Asexuality.  Eunjung Kim,

University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Be Prepared.  S. Lochlan Jain, Stanford University

In the Name of Pain.  Tobin Siebers, Univer

Conclusion: What Next?, Anna Kirkland, University of Michigan

Jonathan M. Metzl (jmetzl@umich.edu) is Associate Professor of Womens Studies Department and Psychiatry at the University of Michigan, where he also directs the Program in Culture, Health, and Medicine. He is the author of Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs and Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease.

Anna Kirkland (akirklan@umich.edu) is Associate Professor of Womens Studies and Political Science at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood.