Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health

Date: 

Friday, October 24, 2014, 10:00am to 11:50am

Location: 

William James Hall, Room 1550

"Faints, Fluids, Tremors, and Winds: The Story of Hysteria in India and the Ways Medicine Moves"

Speaker:

Sarah Pinto, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Tufts University.

Co-sponsored by The Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Program in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University; and The Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Contact:

Karen Kwass
karen_kwass@hms.harvard.edu
617-432-2676

Chairs:

Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Faculty Associate. Professor of Social Medicine, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Byron J. Good, Faculty Associate. Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Michael M.J. Fischer, Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Erica Caple James, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Seth Donal Hannah, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.