The Case of the Human is a collaborative research project at the Neubauer Collegium aimed not merely at translating existing theory across the humanities and medicine, but rather at co-producing new plural knowledge of the human that transcends epistemological boundaries. This roundtable brings together clinicians and scholars in the humanities and humanistic social sciences to discuss: 1) their own work in relation to the broad aims of the Case of the Human project, 2) the development of concepts bridging the humanities and medicine. This roundtable will be of interest to students, faculty, and others concerned with the practice and theoretical development of social medicine, as well as the humanities and social sciences of health and medicine.

Roundtable Participants

Alhelí Calderón Villarreal
Medical doctor and public health researcher, Department of Public Health, California State University San Marcos; Social-Environmental Tijuana River Project, Baja California, Mexico

María Carrión
Journalist and director, FiSahara International Film Festival

Salek Ali Mohamed Elabd
Medical doctor, Sahrawi Health, Algeria

Tinashe Goronga
Medical doctor and public health practitioner, EqualHealth, and Center for Health Equity, Zimbabwe

Zolelwa Sifumba
Medical doctor, TB Proof, Cape Town, South Africa

Moderators

Junko Kitanaka
Social and medical anthropologist and professor, Department of Human Sciences, Keio University, Tokyo

Eugene Raikhel
Cultural and medical anthropologist and professor, Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago



This event, part of an international conference for invited participants, is sponsored by the Case of the Human research project at the Neubauer Collegium. The conference is co-sponsored by the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence, the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights, the Committee on Environment, Geography and Urbanization, the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS), and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS) at the University of Chicago; the Institute of East Asian Studies, the Center for Chinese Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, the Center for Japanese Studies, the Social Science Matrix, the Townsend Center for the Humanities, the Othering and Belonging Institute, the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, and the Center for Race and Gender at the University of California, Berkeley; the University of California - Alianza MX; the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) at Uppsala University; the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard University; Consolidación Investigadora: AgriHeat Project at the Spanish Ministry of Research; the Pasqual Maragall Foundation; and the Hub for Global Social Medicine at the University of Barcelona.