Medicine in context

The Novartis Foundation has contributed an article on community-based health insurance schemes in rural Mali to this reference work in German language edited by Hansjörg Dilger and Bernhard Hadolt. This collection includes new analyses from a social and cultural anthropology perspective on dealing with illness and health in a globalized world. 

Dealing with illness and health not only depends on medical technology or financial resources, but also to a significant degree on the specific cultural, social and political context in which the parties involved are acting. This is all the more true against the backdrop of global interconnections which makes it increasingly possible to access different health-related knowledge and medical practices worldwide.

The collection Medizin im Kontext – Krankheit und Gesundheit in einer vernetzten Welt (Medicine in context – illness and health in an interconnected world) includes contributions with case studies on Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America on issues that will play a key role in medical-anthropological and other health-related research in the future: dealing with new technologies such as tissue donation, reproductive medicine or child immunization and medical practice, medicine in the context of migration and transnational networks, “traditional” medicine as a strategic resource, social health protection and its financing, as well as health and disease in an urban context.

Read the article Krankenkassenmitgliedschaft im ländlichen Mali. Eine neue Form der Gesundheitssicherung im Kontext sozialer Differenzierung (membership in health insurance schemes in rural Mali. A new form of health protection in the context of social differentiation) by Alexander Schulze, Novartis Foundation.

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