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Seth Holmes

Chancellor's Professor, Division of Society and Environment, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management UC Berkeley

Biography

Seth M. Holmes is a cultural and medical anthropologist and physician whose work focuses broadly on social hierarchies, health inequalities, and the ways in which such asymmetries are naturalized, normalized, and resisted. He is the Chancellor's Professor in the UC Berkeley Division of Society and Environment, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management and Researcher at the University of Barcelona and the ICREA Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Study. He is a faculty member in the Graduate Program in Medical Anthropology and affiliated with the Department of Anthropology and the School of Public Health. He is Co-Director of the MD/PhD Track in Medical Anthropology coordinated between UCSF and UC Berkeley, Founder of the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine and Director of the Hub for Global Social Medicine in Barcelona.

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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

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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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