Event location
Seminars will take place at Seminar Room 218, FHH (Frederik Holsts hus), 12:15-13:30.
Zoom link for those wishing to attend online.
Abstract
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This working talk will examine the ways in which medical trainees come to perceive and respond to social inequalities. The ethnographic and interview research explores the ways in which the clinical gaze and the medical habitus are produced through embodied practice in medical school, internship and residency. The research seeks to understand, How does the context of vast and growing social inequalities affect the medical student seeking to learn to provide care?, How and when are the social structural processes that produce inequality justified and how and when are they resisted in medical training? This project ends with aspirations and imagination toward different forms of medical training oriented toward social justice and health equity.
Bio
Seth M. Holmes, PhD, MD, is Chancellor's Professor of Society and Environment and Medical Anthropology at UC Berkeley and PI of the ERC Project FOODCIRCUITS at the University of Barcelona and ICREA Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Study. He is Founder of the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, Co-Director of the MD/PhD Track in Medical Anthropology coordinated between UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco, and Founder of the Hub for Global Social Medicine in Barcelona. A cultural and medical anthropologist and physician, he has worked on social hierarchies, health inequities, and the ways in which such asymmetries are naturalized, normalized, and resisted in the context of transnational im/migration, agro-food systems, and health care. He has received national and international awards from the fields of anthropology, sociology, and geography, including the Margaret Mead Award. In addition to scholarly publications, he has written for popular media such as The Huffington Post and Salon.com and spoken on multiple NPR, PRI, Pacifica Radio and Radio Bilingüe radio programs.