Talks, Events, and new Publications

Find out more about new events and writing happening within our research group as well as at the University of Vienna’s Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology.

Book Presentation of Intimate Strangers by Veronika Siegl, Group of people sitting in front of bookshelf talking with row of people in front

health matters colloquium group photo_©E.Meillan

team meeting health matters_©J.Korokai people standing in line with glasses

Brainstorming Session Health Matters ©J.Meillan-Kehr

screen reading nitroglycerin makes me explode at the public performance lecture during the environmental disease workshop_©health matters

people sitting in a room at the Wednesday Seminar V. Siegl at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology_©health matters

J. Kehr and S. Harding at the public performance lecture taking place during the environmental disease workshop_©health matters

team meeting health matters i_©J.Korokai people standing and cheering

people standing outdoors in a circle at the workshop environmental disease walkshop_©health matters

J. Kehr and L. Mair on the roof of the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology celebrating L. Mair's FÖP_©health matters

altar covered with pill bottles crowned by two angels wearing face masks at the public performance lecture part of the environmental disease workshop_©health matters

glasses and syringes at the public performance lecture during the environmental disease workshop_©health matters

TALK

Wie gerecht ist Gesundheit?

Conversation with Lisa Lehner and Lukas Kaelin on health equity, gaps in care and distributional issues.

Ö1 – punkteins(at)orf.at

Book

cache 04: Radical Health

A collaboration between medical anthropologists and health activists exploring how healthcare can be imagined, thought and done differently

intercom Verlag

CALL FOR PANELS

Medical Anthropology Europe Conference 2025: Redefinitions of Health and Well-being

Deadline 15 January 2025

EASA & Health Matters

ARTIKEL

Not-Quite-Dead: Ontological Careographies and the Ambiguous Fetal Body in the Context of Disability-Selective Pregnancy Termination in Austria

Veronika Siegl

Medical Anthropology

ARTIKEL

Fertility decline - Can assisted reproductive technologies solve the fertility crisis?

Veronika Siegl and Ayo Wahlberg

Rudolphina – Research Magazine of the University of Vienna

ARTIKEL

Antibiotika: weniger ist mehr

News.at

ARTIKEL

"Wir sollten über Verschwendung in der Medizin nachdenken"

Interview with Janina Kehr

DerStandard

SEMESTER QUESTION

Can health be fair for all?

Rudolphina – Research Magazine of the University of Vienna

ARTIKEL

(Un)equally healthy - Health requires solidarity

Talk with Robert Böhm and Janina Kehr

Rudolphina – Research Magazine of the University of Vienna

TALK

"Spontan gefragt" - Werden Medikamente zu oft und falsch verordnet?

Talk with Janina Kehr and Lisa Makas

KURIER.TV

ARTIKEL

Werden zu viele Antibiotika und Beruhigungsmittel verschrieben?

KURIER.AT

ARTIKEL

50 Jahre straffreier Schwangerschaftsabbruch – und wie weiter?

edited by Lucia Mair and Veronika Siegl

PODCAST

Tuberculose - Les voix de la recherche

Podcast with Janina Kehr on Tuberculosis

produced by Déborah Malka and Noa Ammar

SPECIAL ISSUE

Social Science & Medicine

Health for All? Pasts, Presents and Futures of Aspirations for Universal Healthcare

edited by Janina Kehr, Jacinta Victoria Syombua Muinde, and Ruth J. Prince