Events & Calendars Two Talks on Humanitarianism

Gender Difference in Post-Conflict Remainders of Violence:
Politics and Imaginaries of Warrior Women
-MaryJo DelVecchio Good

Intervention as a Mode of Inquiry:
Reflections on a Decade of Work in Post-Conflict Aceh, Indonesia
-Byron J. Good
Reception to follow

The Goods have been pioneers in the field of medical anthropology and medical sociology. With early work in Iran, Turkey and the United States, their writings charted out conceptions of illness and disease, belief and knowledge, depression, pain, the education of medical students, and the experience of cancer treatment. Joint ethnographic work in Indonesia has delved into issues of postcolonial disorders, subjectivity, trauma (particularly post-war, post-tsunami in Aceh), art, haunting and more.

In the last decade, with funding from the Fogarty International Center and USAID, the Goods have been involved in the creation of mental health services in China and Indonesia. And in addition to their scholarship and teaching, they have been instrumental in the creation of the Harvard Medical School Department of Social Medicine’s new master’s program in Global Health.

Sponsored by the Five-College Culture, Health, and Science Certificate Program