Kehr, Janina (2020). Toward the Otherwise. Medicine, Anthropology, Politics. Journal of Social & Cultural Anthropology / Zeitschrift fuer Ethnologie, 145(1), pp. 27-45. Reimer
Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)Within anthropology, a recent intensification of scholarship on "the otherwise" can be observed. The adverb "otherwise" means "differently, in another way." In anthropology, however, it is also used as a noun, to denote something that is an alternative. I argue that a gradual transformation of anthropology's epistemological politics, from a critique of otherings to engagements with the political potentialities of "the otherwise", has triggered this intensification. In this article I show how an anthropology of the otherwise can be fruitful in medical anthropology. By presenting ethnographic material on a community health project in Madrid, I will demonstrate its heuristics. In particular, researching the otherwise reveals the longue durée of power and inequalities that permeates contemporary medicine and the spaces of the otherwise that are made to exist within medicine, too. I hereby argue for a political anthropology of health and medicine that lets itself be affected by others' otherwise and contributes to crafting it into existence.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Social Anthropology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Kehr, Janina |
Subjects: |
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology |
ISSN: |
0044-2666 |
Publisher: |
Reimer |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Anja Julienne Wohlgemuth |
Date Deposited: |
02 Feb 2022 16:04 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:50 |
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https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/154655 |
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