In this podcast series, we will explore the many challenges facing the sustainability of healthcare and talk to extraordinary healthcare researchers, doctors, and activists from around the world, who are pushing for a shift towards a new paradigm to improve our health, well-being, and climate.

We will talk about everything from an evolutionary patient revolt, challenging professional norms in medical practice, and the widespread use of low-value care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, where the problem of waste is a great challenge to healthcare systems. These new emerging initiatives will be explored in our podcast episodes hosted by Ray Moynihan, journalist and researcher at Bond University, and Fiona Godlee, editor in chief, The BMJ

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The centrality of emotion in thought and action is increasingly recognised in the human sciences, though basic questions of definition and scope remain unresolved. Where do emotions begin and end? How should we identify and analyse them? How write about them? Ethnographic fieldwork, as pioneered by Malinowski, offers powerful insights into the place of emotion in social life; but emotions are peculiarly difficult to capture in the generalizing format of case study and ethnographic summary. Andrew Beatty argues that semantic, structural, and discourse-based approaches tend to miss what is most important - what counts for the persons concerned and therefore what makes the emotion. Beatty reviews the conceptual and methodological issues and concludes that only a narrative approach can capture both the particularity and the temporal dimension of emotion, restoring verisimilitude and fidelity to experience. Andrew Beatty is author of A Shadow Falls: in the heart of Java and a forthcoming ethnographic narrative After the Ancestors. Thu, 16 May 2013 18:00:00 GMT

Anthropology and Emotion [Audio]

The Recovery - Voices of action towards sustainable healthcare

Director of Cochrane Sustainable Healthcare Dr. Minna Johansson talks about why a new focus on sustainability of health and healthcare is urgently needed – for patients, health systems, societies, and the planet.

The Recovery - What does sustainable healthcare mean?

In this episode, we will hear from Victor Montori, the Peruvian-born Mayo Clinic-based doctor who is inciting a non-violent revolution of careful and kind care, of unhurried conversations with patients, built on compassion and solidarity.

The Recovery -  Why we need a patient revolution

From ensuring fairer healthcare in India to addressing medical overuse, high-profile cancer specialist,  professor CS Pramesh of Tata Memorial Hospital is challenging norms within cancer healthcare and practice. 

Pramesh is also helping to lead Choosing Wisely’s efforts to reduce wasteful care in low- and middle-income countries – with the aim to achieve more efficient, higher quality, and equitable care for all.

The Recovery - Addressing inequality in healthcare and raising the bar in cancer treatment

Our last interview in this podcast series is with Dr. Leonore Tiefer who has written widely about the medicalization of men’s and women’s sexuality. Her global campaigns have been successful in slowing the medicalization of common female sexual problems and is a model for community action against overdiagnosis and overtreatment.

You can find more information about Leonore's work on the newviewcampaign.org website.

The Recovery - The risks of medicalizing sexuality

Inaugural Lecture - Professor Charles Stewart

We have had history and anthropology, historical anthropology and the history of anthropology, but as yet there has been no concerted anthropology OF history.  What is needed are ethnographic studies of how the past is known, understood and represented in world societies past and present. This does not amount solely to the appreciation of “others” delegitimized by Western academic historiography.

We also need a reverse anthropology where historicism itself along with other Western practices of relating to the past, such as battlefield reenactments, are opened to ethnographic study. This presentation will ask whether heightened recognition of alternative regimes of historical practice might alter the Western understanding of history.

After a BA in Classics, field research in Greece, and a PhD in Anthropology, Charles Stewart taught Modern Greek, Anthropology, and History at universities on both sides of the Atlantic. He came to UCL as a joint appointment in the Departments of History and Anthropology. His areas of research include the ethnography of Greece, cultural mixture (syncretism and creolization), and psychological anthropology. His recent book Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece (2012) presents an anthropological study of historicizing practices on the island of Naxos.

For an Anthropology of History - Professor Charles Stewart (UCL Anthropology)

E118 | During the nineteenth century, the increasing professionalization of medical practice led to the emergence of new institutions and laws governing legitimate use of medical knowledge. In the Ottoman Empire, the arrival of European medical schools and establishments led to tensions regarding the sovereignty of the empire over the medical realm in its own domains. This episode with Philippe Bourmaud follows the debates and conflicts over the establishment of the French medical school of Saint-Joseph in Beirut during the late Ottoman period and their meaning for own understanding of imperialism and colonialism in the Ottoman world. - See more at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2013/08/lebanon-medicine-education.html#sthash.SlrUMloB.dpuf

Colonialism, Sovereignty, and Medicine in Ottoman Lebanon | Philippe Bourmaud

This podcast accompanies a free 5-week e-course called Why We Post: the Anthropology of Social Media, available on FutureLearn in English (https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/anthropology-social-media/) and on UCLeXtend in Tamil, Hindi, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese, and Turkish (https://extendstore.ucl.ac.uk/catalog?pagename=why-we-post).

The course follows the research of a team of anthropologists at UCL Anthropology who studied the uses and consequences of social media for people's lives around the world. www.ucl.ac.uk/why-we-post.

The Recovery - What does sustainable healthcare mean?

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