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Record W2029246463 · doi:10.1080/13648470.2012.660474

Medical anthropology in Europe: shaping the field

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Elisabeth Hsü, Caroline Potter

Bibliographic record

VenueAnthropology and Medicine · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicRace, Genetics, and Society
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersRoyal Anthropological InstituteWellcome Trust
KeywordsMedical anthropologyAnthropologySocial anthropologyEthnographyVisual anthropologySociologyApplied anthropology

Abstract

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgements This special issue is based upon papers presented at the conference 'Medical Anthropology in Europe' funded by the Wellcome Trust and Royal Anthropological Institute. Conflict of interest: none. Notes 1. See also Diasio (1999 Diasio, Nicoletta. 1999. La science impure: Anthropologie et médicine en France, Grande-Bretagne, Italie, Pays-Bas, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. [Google Scholar]) on central European developments and Ingstad and Talle (2009 Ingstad, Benedicte, and Aud Talle, eds. 2009. Introduction to Nordic anthropology. Special Issue, Medical Anthropology Quarterly 23, no. 1: 1–87 [Google Scholar]) on the Nordic network of medical anthropology. 2. Admittedly, the mind (and mental illness) rather than the body figured among the early core themes, but since the body is central to the medical anthropology programme at Oxford, where the RAI conference that prompted this special issue took place, it provided a thematic anchor. 3. European appointments in medical anthropology included those at Perugia (Seppilli, from 1956), Cambridge (Lewis, from 1971), Heidelberg and Zurich (assistant lecturers, from 1977), Amsterdam (Van der Geest, from 1978), and Aix-en-Provence (Benoist, from 1981). These initiatives broadly coincided with North American appointments at McGill (Lock), Harvard (Kleinman, Good) and UC-Berkeley (Leslie, Scheper-Hughes). 4. Beginnings in the 1970s appear to apply only to countries where social anthropology was already an established discipline of higher education. In socialist Croatia, biological anthropologists founded an anthropological society in 1977 and a 'Commission on Medical Anthropology and Epidemiology' in 1988, while possibilities for developing a critical medical anthropological perspective arose only after the decline of socialism (Spoliar-Vrzina, in Hsu and Montag 2005 Hsu, Elisabeth, and Doreen Montag, eds. 2005. Medical anthropology in Europe: Teaching and doctoral research. Wantage: Sean Kingston [Google Scholar]: 7). In Spain, Ackerknecht's 'culturalism', as adopted by medical historians and folklorists, predominated in discussions when medical anthropology was first instituted in a taught course (in 1981), well before social/cultural anthropology became firmly established (in the early 1990s according to Comelles, Perdiguero, and Martínez-Hernáez (2007 Comelles, Josep M., Enrique Perdiguero, and Angel Martínez-Hernáez. 2007 [2005]. Topographies, folklore, and medical anthropology in Spain. In Medical anthropology: Regional perspectives and shared concerns, eds. Francine Saillant and Serge Genest, 103–21. Malden: Blackwell [Google Scholar] [2005]: 108)). By contrast, in Zurich, when Ethnologie rather than Völkerkunde was being instituted, Ackerknecht was not once mentioned in the first medical anthropology lectures, although he worked until his retirement in 1971 im Turm – 'in the lofty tower' of the University's main building, only two flights of stairs above the classroom where the lectures were held (a co-author's observation).

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.601
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.003
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.346
Teacher spread0.328 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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