Headed back up the hills, and today we are in the misty uplands of Kildare with Professor Dr A Jamie Saris.
Dr Saris is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Maynooth University. He has been working for more than twenty years in medical and psychological anthropology in Ireland, North America, and parts of Africa, where he has researched and published on such diverse issues as the social life of mental hospitals, the experience of major mental illness, colonialism and its aftermath, structural violence and health risk, authenticity, health services research, drug use/abuse, professionalism in medical education.
Find more information about Jamie here. His latest book can be found here.
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Thank you to all the supporters as well as to the amazing band Bukahara for their permission to use their fabulous, on point song 'Storytelling Animal' as our soundtrack.
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