Anthropology Club features public lecture by Dr. Roman Franco on 'The Object of Medicine: Towards a Redefinition of Homo sapiens' March 18
by Kathleen McCoy |
Friday, March 18, 1 p.m.
Rasmuson Hall, Room 117
The presentation will be given by University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, Dr.
Roman Franco. This event is sponsored by the UAA Anthropology Club.
Recent advances have drawn attention to the importance of understanding the social
dimensions of medicine's fundamental object: Homo sapiens. The field of medicine needs
to reassess the relationship with its object away from a strictly biomedical framework
to incorporate the body in both its organic and social dimensions. A new definition
is essential for identifying what constitutes health and for identifying when a person
has entered the realm of illness (as informed by symptoms) and disease (as revealed
by signs).
This lecture charges that anthropology, with its contextualized view of Homo sapiens,
is better equipped to achieve this task than contemporary medical educators. This
talk also underlines how the transformation of medicine's relationship to Homo sapiens
is essential if medical educators are to organize education in ways that better meet
the needs of individuals and their circumstances.
For more information, please contact Ted Parsons at thparsons@alaska.edu or visit
UAA Anthropology Club.
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