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Exploring Culture and Health: An Anthropological Workshop in Izmir

Join us at the Introduction to Medical Anthropology workshop in Izmir to delve into topics like the role of culture in healthcare, globalization’s impact on health, and ethical aspects of qualitative research.

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Exploring Culture and Health: An Anthropological Workshop in Izmir

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  1. Introduction to Medical anthropology CESME, Izmir 9-12 December 2013 Shahaduz Zaman Ph.D. Institute of Health and Society Newcastle University, UK

  2. Programme of the Workshop Day 1: • Anthropological Approach and Concept of Culture • Basic Concepts of Medical Anthropology • Role of Medical Anthropology in Public Health • Group work Day 2: • Cultural Dimension of biomedicine and pharmaceuticals • Anthropology of Hospitals: Case from Bangladesh • War and Health (Syrian Experience) • Women Workers Health: An Oxymoron (Turkish expereince) • Group reading • Gala Dinner

  3. Day 3: • Globalization and Global health • Culture and Hygiene • Making Sense of Pain: An Anthropological Perspective • Growing Old: Experience and Care • Site seeing Day 4 • Basic concepts of anthropological/Qualitative research • Role of self in anthropological research • Ethnography • Qualitative data analysis • Some ethical dimensions of interviewing • Observation field exercise • Concluding session

  4. Facilitators • Prof. Sjaak van der Geest, Medical Anthropology Unit, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands • Dr. Shahaduz Zaman, Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, UK • Dr. Fouad Fouad, American University of Beirut, Lebanon • Professor Inci User- Marmara University, Department of Sociology, Istanbul, Turkey. • Professor Belkis Kumbetoglu, Yeditepe University, Department of Anthropology, Istanbul, Turkey • Bahar Taymaz, PhD, Yeditepe University, Department of Anthropology, Istanbul, Turkey

  5. A personal reflexion

  6. Baby turns blue and red with high fever The baby was born without skilled attendant Pregnant mother did not get the TT Health Services Disease: Tetanus Baby dies on the way…… Mother decides for Health Centre Infra- structure Power relationship Slow transport Grandfather stops them Poverty Health Seeking Behavior Cultural belief Baby gets further worse- decision to take to clinic- short of money Grandfather recites Holy Quran and prays Baby gets worse - taken to a Traditional healer

  7. Health Services Disease The baby was born without skilled attendant Pregnant mother did not get the TT Baby turns blue and red with high fever Slow transport Infra- structure Mother decides for health centre Power relationship Grandfather stops them Baby gets further worse- decision to take to clinic- short of money Poverty Grandfather recites Holy Quran and prays Baby gets worse - taken to a Traditional healer Health Seeking behavior Cultural belief

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