Medical Anthropology in Global Africa: Current Trends in Scholarship and Practice

Keynote speaker, Professor Carolyn Sargent of Washington University, St. Louis, on “Voices from the West African Diaspora in Paris: Bintou’s Story and the Prospect for Global Ethnography in Medical Anthropology.” Her talk will address the impact of Africanist scholarship on health beyond the boundaries of the continent, in migrant communities and in the wider study of health, illness and healing.