Medicine | Politics Technologies Environments
Health Matters is a research group at the University of Vienna’s Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology.
our topics & questions
Our work is situated at the intersection of Critical Medical Anthropology, Global / Public Health and Feminist Science and Technology Studies. We want to understand how health matters and how health is mattered.
Our topics range from the critical analysis of medicine, healing practices and notions of health, illness and disability, to collective forms of care, ethics, and morality. We are concerned about the wide-ranging intersectional inequalities that shape past and current biopolitics and embodied experiences. Our aim is thus to understand how the global economy, contentious politics, diverse forms of medicine, and technology shape human and more-than-human lives in postcolonial worlds.
We care about nurturing open academic spaces of collaboration, kindness, mutual understanding, creativity and joy. We strive to build environments of relatedness and solidarity which are driven by concerns for social and environmental justice.
With the present website, we aim to create a forum where we can enter in touch with students, scholars and activists in both Austria, Europe and the world at large.
people
Janina Kehr
Professor of Medical Anthropology and Global Health
Sofie Kronberger
PraeDoc
(University Assistant)
Lucia Mair
PraeDoc
(University Assistant)
Giorgio Brocco
Research Associate (PostDoc) / Lecturer
María Fernanda Olarte-Sierra
Research Associate (PostDoc) / Lecturer
Veronika Siegl
Senior Research Fellow
Lisa Lehner
Postdoctoral Researcher & Co-PI for “Less is More”
Miriam Schwaiger
Research Administration
Julia Koroknai
Student Staff
Sophie Wagner
PraeDoc / Research Fellow
Laila Rajani
Visiting Fellow
Mara Köhler
PhD Student
people
Janina Kehr
Professor of Medical Anthropology and Global Health
Sofie Kronberger
PraeDoc
(University Assistant)
Lucia Mair
PraeDoc
(University Assistant)
Giorgio Brocco
Research Associate (PostDoc) / Lecturer
María Fernanda Olarte-Sierra
Research Associate (PostDoc) / Lecturer
Veronika Siegl
Senior Research Fellow
Lisa Lehner
Postdoctoral Researcher & Co-PI for “Less is More”
Miriam Schwaiger
Research Administration
Julia Koroknai
Student Staff
Mara Köhler
PhD Student
Sophie Wagner
PraeDoc / Research Fellow
Laila Rajani
Visiting Fellow
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