AnthroHealth Durham

This week #SaferSleepWeek is focusing on safe co-sleeping with infants, so we caught up with our expert Professor Helen Ball, who shares her top tips for sleeping safely with infants 👶💤 @LullabyTrust @BasisOnline1 fal.cn/3wAvQ

We're delighted to announce the winner of the MAE-MAT Early Career Paper Award. It goes to Upul Kumara Wickramasinghe for his paper ‘Screening Charity Recipients: Health Philanthropy, Medical Diagnosis, and Kidney Disease Prevention in Sri Lanka’. Congrats, Upul! @medanteurope

After 6 years, 1 terrorist attack, 2 breakups, 1 tropical disease, a mental breakdown, and a global pandemic, I have finally finished my thesis. I’m a gremlin after a week of extremely late nights so here’s a photo of a younger, fitter me looking happy instead! #phdchat

Prof Brian Castellani from @DurhamSociology  is Director of @InSPIREAirBrain  research consortium. In this blog post he & colleagues discuss why air quality strategies should include benefits on brain health 👉fal.cn/3sz44 @complexcase  @cleanair_doc @stefan_reis

The new @culanth Fieldsights series on 'Disability as Rupture', from Michele Friedener and @M_Wolf_Meyer, is out! A fantastic read for those engaged at the intersections of #disabilitystudies and #anthropology. #Anthrotwitter.

New open-access article out with Ethnos: '"We Are Burning Ourselves Up": Ethiopian Runners and Energetic Subjectivities' 🇪🇹🏃‍♂️🇪🇹🏃‍♂️ The article explores the consequences of a shared notion of energy: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

My new book, Law at the Frontiers of Biomedicine, will be published by @hartpublishing on 23 February: bloomsbury.com/uk/law-at-the-…

@mphcrawley @CWAgencyUK @add_editore nice alliterative title in Hungarian!

My Out of Thin Air translations shelf is growing nicely, if anyone in the U.K. wants to read it in Japanese, Italian or Hungarian send me a DM : ) @CWAgencyUK @add_editore

Thanks @MedAnthUoE for inviting me to write a blog post based on my #globalmentalhealth research if you’re interested feel free to read and share 🙏 edcma.sps.ed.ac.uk/blog/away-psyc… @for_therapies @UoEdWellbeing @uoessps @AnthroHealthDU @SoMA_EdCMA @EdinUniHealth

So excited to see the spotlight on Dr Khiara Bridges and her anthropological work on reproduction, how reproductive justice must always be intersectional. Here is a thread of other ethnographies on reproduction, race & gender I would recommend 🧵

Some of our team — @AlyaaEbbiary, @diddles_s, Elodie Druez, Arndt Emmerlich, @bengidley and @egorovayi — will be at #BIAJS2022 this week. If you are there, join our session on Tuesday afternoon!

fantastic postdoc/doc opportunity @univienna to work on a valuography of vaccinations with @katharinatpaul. Deadline has passed but late applications are still considered. politikwissenschaft.univie.ac.at/details/news/4…

There is still time to register for the Durham-Edinburgh medical anthropology workshop! Taking place on Friday 24 June 2022 at @durham_uni FREE sign-up here: bit.ly/3yXV4nh @SoMA_EdCMA

Social medicine reimagined when we need it most - don't miss this #webinar #MedEd #medanthro @SfAAnthro @MedAnthDoc @MedHums_BMJ

Very pleased to see the exhibition I have curated on microbes opening soon at the musée du quai Branly, on display all summer. Ethnographic objects, microscopic images and contemporary art contribute to change our scale of thinking.

Postdoc in disease and cultural evolution with Dr Mark Tanaka at UNSW external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/5090… jobs.unsw.edu.au

Register now for the Durham-Edinburgh medical anthropology workshop! Friday 24 June 2022 at @durham_uni Register here: bit.ly/3yXV4nh @SoMA_EdCMA

Durham-Edinburgh medical anthropology workshop! 24 June, in Durham @SoMA_EdCMA Register: eventbrite.co.uk/e/durham-edinb…