Merleau-Ponty and medical anthropology

Journal article

I did the M.Phil. in Medical Anthropology at Oxford in 2003-2005, having been teaching in the Philosophy Faculty (my affiliation is with Mansfield College) for some twenty years at that stage. I still look back on those two years as among the most exciting and challenging periods of my life. One of the many attractions of the course was the fact that one of the great loves of my intellectual life, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, was appreciated in the Anthropology Institute – indeed rather more than in the Philosophy Faculty, at least at that time. Since then, I have been co-lecturing for the Anthropology of the Body and Gender paper for the M.Phil. with Elisabeth Hsu (latterly also with Caroline Potter and Karin Eli). The tenth anniversary of the Medical Anthropology course at Oxford is a great cause for celebration, as well as an occasion to reflect on the relationship between Merleau-Ponty and medical anthropology.

Authors: Morris, KJ

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Anthropological Society of Oxford
• Journal: Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford Online
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 339-354
• Publication date: 2015-01-01
• DOI: 10.5287/ora-vgnebgdoe
• ISSN: 2040-1876
• Language: English
• Keywords: JASO