Society for Medical Anthropology

To the SMA Membership from Carolyn Sargent

I would like to share with you a message from Lenore Manderson (Monash University, Australia, SMA Board Member), who writes "I just want to let you know that Cecil Helman, Professor of Medical Anthropology at Brunel University, died last night. As you will know, he was awarded the SMA Career Achievement Award in December 2004, and in September 2005 received the 'Lucy Mair Medal in Applied Anthropology' from the Royal Anthropological Institute. His book Culture, Health and Illness had enormous impact in encouraging engagement with anthropology, especially I think from clinicians and other people working in applied public health and clinical arenas."

http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/sss/depts/anthropology/anth_staff/cecilhelman

SMA Conference Schedule

• The conference schedule is now available (Excel format)
• See the conference website for more details

Upcoming Award Deadlines

SMA Awards - Deadline July 1: see links for details

• The Ellen Basker Memorial Prize
• The New Millennium Book Award
• The Hughes, Rivers, and Polgar Paper Prizes
• The MASA dissertation Award, and the MASA Graduate Student Mentoring Award

SMA Awards - Deadline Sept 1: see links for details

• Career Achievement Award and George Foster Practicing Award

Special Interest Group Awards: see links for details

• Rudolf Virchow Awards (given by the Critical Anthropology for Global Health caucus, a SMA special interest group). Deadline is July 15, 2009. The professional award honors a recent published article, and the graduate and undergraduate student awards honor recent student papers, all deemed by the judges to best reflect, extend, or advance critical perspectives in medical anthropology.
• ADTSG (Alcohol, Drug and Tobacco Study Group) competition for the best graduate student paper in the anthropology of alcohol, drugs, or tobacco. Submissions from all anthropological subdisciplines are encouraged. The papers will be judged by a committee of ADTSG members. The author of the winning paper will receive a cash award of $250. The winner will be announced in Anthropology News and at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings. Deadline September 1, 2009

Calling All Filmmakers!

2009 Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival

Oct 2nd, 2009 - Entry submission deadline: June 10th, 2009 - Details

Medical Anthropology at the Intersections Celebrating 50 Years of Interdisciplinarity

An International Conference of the SMA

Sept 24-27 2009 - Yale University

For More Information: Conference Website - Conference Brochure

Announcing Early Closure of Registration - We are happy to report that we have had a much higher than anticipated level of abstract submissions and registrations! However, since venue size and local hotel availability are limited, this unfortunately means that we were forced to close registration for the conference at midnight (EST) on April 15th.

Fulbright Scholar Grants

Research Review

The American Anthropologist has accepted the idea that it should review important volumes of work that may not appear in usual published venues, e.g., gray literature or technical reports.

• The Committee on Practicing, Applied and Public Interest Anthropology is interested in 1) volumes in medical anthropology that would be good to review, e.g., the WHO report on Social Determinants, and 2) potential reviewers. If you have suggestions for volumes, or are interested in serving as a reviewer, please contact Robert Hahn directly at rah1@cdc.gov

Podcasted SMA Sessions for SfAA 2008

• For example: The SMA Plenary Session: The Political Construction of Global Infectious Disease - there are numerous others - be sure to check them out!