No dia 22 de janeiro acontece mais uma sessão do Food for Thought, o Grupo de Leitura do ICS-ULisboa Food Hub. Nesta sessão, coordenada por Virgínia Calado, será discutido o texto Demedicalizing Health: The Kitchen as a Site of Care, de Emily Yates-Doerr e Megan A. Carney.

Attention to culinary care can enrich the framing of health within medical anthropology. We focus on care practices in six Latin American kitchens to illuminate forms of health not located within a singular human subject. In these kitchens, women cared not for individuals but for meals, targeting the health of families and landscapes. Many medical anthropologists have critiqued health for its associations with biomedicine/biocapitalism, some even taking a stance ‘against health.’ Although sympathetic to this critique, our focus on women’s practices of caring for health through food highlights dissonances between clinical and nonclinical forms of health. We call for the development of an expanded vocabulary of health that recognizes health care treatment strategies that do not target solely the human body but also social, political, and environmental afflictions.

O texto completo está disponível nesta ligação. Se não for membro do ICS Food Hub e quiser assistir, envie email para vmcalado@ics.ulisboa.pt para obter o link Zoom.