Date/Time
Thursday
13 Feb 2025
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location
470 Stephens Hall

Event Type
Colloquium

Janina Kehr
Professor of Medical Anthropology and Global Health

Modern medicine is an integral part of people’s daily lives, subjectivities, and the political economy in many parts of the world. It has also long become a globalized enterprise. In my talk, I will be paying attention to aspects of medicine that are often overlooked if medicine is primarily conceived of as a form of cure: environmental impact, labour, extraction. Paying attention to what I call the more-than-medical allows novel perspectives on medicine and its globe-spanning infrastructures. It is a way to comprehend medicine in late industrialism as an ever expanding and at the same time exhausted material and extractive enterprise, predicated on sick and worn-out bodies and environments, and yet indispensable for health as it is hegemonically understood today.