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Do not resuscitate orders in a UK hospital: an ethnography of the future-present

Do not resuscitate orders in a UK hospital: an ethnography of the future-present

FromAnthropology


Do not resuscitate orders in a UK hospital: an ethnography of the future-present

FromAnthropology

ratings:
Length:
55 minutes
Released:
Apr 29, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Simon Cohn of Cambridge University looks at the ways health professionals and their activities construct an understanding of the human body according to particular temporal framings. An anthropology departmental seminar.
Released:
Apr 29, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Podcasts from the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography. The School is renowned for its contributions to anthropological theory, its commitment to long-term ethnographic fieldwork, and its association with the Pitt Rivers Museum and the anthropology of visual and material culture. Home to over forty academic staff, over a hundred doctoral students, twelve Master’s programmes, and two undergraduate degrees (Human Sciences; Archaeology and Anthropology), Oxford anthropology is one of the world’s largest and most vibrant centres for teaching and research in the discipline. It came top of the Power (research excellence + volume) rankings for anthropology in the UK in RAE 2008.