Wild Animal鈥� - An Ethnography About Older Individuals And Chronic Illnesses In A Brazilian Shantytown
Soraya Fleischer is a medical anthropologist and professor at the anthropology department of the University of Brasilia (UnB). She just completed fieldwork, lasting several years, about older people in a poor city at the outskirts of Brasilia.
This conference consists of a short documentary (30 minutes, with English subtitles) that tells with lots of empathy and humor, the stories of some older people living in the poor city of Ceil芒ndia (near Brasilia) and the way these individuals integrate, negotiate with, and contest chronic illness (esp. diabetes and hypertension) in their everyday life. Fleischer documents how chronic illness -the 鈥渨ild animal鈥� - is an important part of everyday life of this population and not always in line with public health recommendations.
The film is followed by a talk that will give insights into the lives of a rarely studied group of older people and initiate a discussion on the management of chronic illness for those who have less resource.
Contact Dr. shari.brotman [at] mcgill.ca (Shari Brotman) to register.
MAY 17, 2016 | 12 pm - 1 pm
平特五不中 | Wendy Patrick Room | 1st floor | Wilson Hall
3506 UNIVERSITY ST. (CORNER MILTON), MONTR脡AL
听
