“Part of my role in teaching medical students is to peel back the inculturation that they’re in, to be able to relate with patients. Remember before you were a med student, what it actually meant to be the person sitting with your dying grandmother…That’s something that, as an anthropologist, that’s part of my role is to be able 
to see where those boundaries are, what it means to be a doctor, and what it means to not be a doctor.”
Dr. Tanisha Jowsey, an applied medical anthropologist at the University of Auckland (unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz/people/t-jowsey), spoke to our own Julia Brown about how to analyze a medical emergency, how machines and people communicate in the Operating Theatre, and how to manage her position as a pregnant anthropologist when there’s blood on the floor.
Citations:
Rapport, Nigel and Joanna Overing (2000) “Social and Cultural Anthropology: the Key Concepts.” Routledge: London and New York. This open access PDF is available on www.antropologias.com:
www.antropologias.org/files/download…y-concepts.pdf
This anthropology podcast is supported by the Australian Anthropological Society, the schools of Culture, History, and Language and Archaeology and Anthropology at Australian National University, and the Australian Centre for the Public Awareness of Science.
Music by Pete Dabro: dabro1.bandcamp.com
Show notes by Ian Pollock
Could we get a written version of this? Very interesting but difficult for people with hearing difficulties to understand.
Hi Libby, thanks for this – our awesome interns have started transcribing our back catalogue, so it’s useful to have feedback on what order to do them! We’ve asked them to do the Tanisha Jowsey episode next and will comment here when it’s up. Thanks for the feedback!
This is a great episode! By any chance is that transcript mentioned in the above 2018 comment now available? It would be very helpful for my students, as I am assigning this podcast.