Curare | Zeitschrift für Medizinethnologie | Journal of Medical Anthropology
Curare is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal of medical anthropology published by the AGEM – Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnologie und Medizin (Association for Anthropology and Medicine) since 1978. Articles are published in German & English. The transformation into an open access journal took place in 2024 with the support of the German Research Foundation (DFG), a print version continues to be published by Reimer Verlag Berlin. All issues from 2018 are published online at www.curarejournal.org. Issues from 1978 to 2017 are freely accessible on the digitalization server of the FID SKA – Specialized Information Service Social and Cultural Anthropology and available at www.evifa.de/curare-journal.
Current Issue
48 (2025) 1+2
Thematic Focus: (A)symmetrical Relations. Professional Insights into the Everyday Life of Psychiatric Hospitals
Edited by Andrea Kuckert
This issue of Curare focuses on presentations from the 36th conference of the Working Group for Ethnology and Medicine (AGEM), organized by editor Andrea Kuckert together with Ehler Voss in cooperation with the collaborative research platform Worlds of Contradiction (WOC) at the University of Bremen and the Alexius/Josef Hospital in Neuss. From November 16–17, 2024, the conference in Neuss explored facets of cooperation in everyday psychiatric hospital life from various perspectives, focusing on the (a)symmetries of the relationship between physicians and patients. One aim of the conference was to bring together representatives from anthropological disciplines and those from medicine and nursing to engage in dialogue on a classic topic in medical anthropology, in the spirit of public anthropology. We are delighted that in Neuss, in addition to colleagues from academia, practitioners from the nursing professions in particular shared their experiences and agreed to put their thoughts into writing for this publication. Creating a productive space for communication where diverse perspectives can be heard and which promotes interdisciplinary and interprofessional exchange is a task that AGEM has pursued since its founding in 1970.
Current Issue
Thematic focus edited by Andrea Kuckert