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.
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Show notes by Ian Pollock