Turning Therapies: Placing Medical Diversity

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We thank Henrike Donner and Michi Knecht who acted as discussants at the conference where this special issue was conceived.

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Notes on contributors

Kristine Krause

KRISTINE KRAUSE is Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam and Research Partner of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen. Her research interests include political subjectivity and care, transnationalism and health, and medicine and religion, particularly global Pentecostalism.

David Parkin

DAVID PARKIN is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford, England, Honorary Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and Senior Research Partner of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen. He studies Islam and healing systems among Swahili-speaking Muslims and other Bantu-speaking non-Muslims in coastal eastern Africa, including Zanzibar. He has a general interest in cross-cultural semantics and language use.

Gabi Alex

GABI ALEX is Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and Senior Research Partner of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen. Her research interests include medical anthropology, ethnicity, healing and identity, and youth and childhood, on which she has conducted research in India and Germany.