About this event
We are delighted to welcome Dr Beth Vale, Lecturer in Anthropology at Witwatersrand University (Johannesburg, South Africa). She will be sharing her work on non-communicable diseases through a critical anthropological lens, as described in the blurb below:
Unhinging Non-communicable Diseases: an anthropological critique
Non-infectious, degenerative illnesses – including cancers, diabetes, cardiovascular and respiratory illnesses – now account for 70% of premature deaths worldwide and are regularly described as ‘non-communicable’ diseases (NCDs). This ‘epidemiological transition’ has been associated with a number of relatively-new social phenomena, in which most people not only live longer lives, but live them in cities.
Drawing on months of ethnographic research in South Africa’s semi-arid Karoo region, this paper will unsettle four powerful ideas in the global NCD narrative. Namely: that NCDs are non-communicable, chronic, urban, and a product of lifestyle.
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