Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health (via Zoom)

Date: 

Friday, February 12, 2021, 10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

Online Only

“Karma Masters: Ethical Theory and Complex Personhood in Thailand”

Attend this event via Zoom (advance registration required)

Speaker:

Scott Stonington, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Internal Medicine, University of Michigan.

Contact:

Sadeq Rahimi
Sadeq_Rahimi@hms.harvard.edu

This seminar is cosponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

This event is online only. Please click the "Read More" link for full instructions on how to attend this seminar.

Chairs:

Mary-Jo DelVecchio GoodFaculty Associate. Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Byron J. GoodFaculty Associate. Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.

Michael M.J. FischerProfessor of Anthropology and Science, Technology, and Society (STS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lecturer, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School. 

Remote Access Information:

To join by computer:

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Please note: This meeting will be recorded.

Speaker Bio:

Dr. Scott Stonington is an MD/PhD anthropologist and internal medicine physician, and is currently Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan. His first book The Spirit Ambulance (2020) focuses on decision-making at the end of life in Thailand, where individuals face a complex combination of ethical frameworks generated by high-tech medical care, human-rights politics, and the metaphysical demands of dying. He has also published extensively in social medicine, most recently as lead editor the series “Case Studies in Social Medicine” in the New England Journal of Medicine, the first series in a major medical journal devoted to social theory.