Suffering History

https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/embed/a30fe29d08445ef11773

Through highlighting some ethnographic examples and lessons from contemporary placebo research, Austin Argentieri (Oxford, Anthropology) discusses how phenomenology allows us to move beyond the distinction between biological disease and embodied illness to examine how social relationships, history, and embodied experience alter human biology and the evolution of viruses.

 

Humanities & Science

Oxford Phenomenology Network