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Mayssa Rekhis

Lecturer and Researcher, School of Public Health and Community Medicine University of Gothenburg

Biography

Mayssa Rekhis is a Medical Doctor, who graduated from the University of Tunis el-Manar, Tunisia, and an anthropologist, holding a Ph.D from the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences EHESS - Paris, France. She is a researcher, educator, and activist, and works at the intersection of these roles, with a focus on health, social justice, and migration. She has more than a decade of experience working in SWANA (South West Asia and North Africa), East Africa, and Europe, both as a researcher and as a practitioner with experience mainly in the non-profit sector. As a researcher, she explores humans' experiences with extreme violence, trauma, suffering, and exile, and is interested in the roles of psychiatry and psychotherapies, mechanisms and processes of subjectivation, and healing. She is currently working in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at Gothenburg University, in Sweden, as a lecturer, and researcher.

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The Case of the Human: Co-Producing Plural Knowledge on the Body, the Social, and the Subject

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2024 – 2025
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The Case of the Human II: Co-Producing Plural Knowledge on the Body, the Social, and the Subject

Painting of a humanoid figure against a red/pink background.

The Case of the Human II: Co-Producing Plural Knowledge on the Body, the Social, and the Subject

Medical and humanistic understandings of health and well-being have intersected in recent decades, but the category of “the human” continues to be defined and applied in different ways. This project will identify a more holistic understanding of “the human” that is neither primarily medical nor...
Between the humanities and medicine there exist numerous definitions of the human, from differing perspectives and with different political implications. In recent decades, these disparate fields have built a tentative and growing dialogue. However, truly multidisciplinary research between the two ...

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