Subjectivities and Afflictions in Medical Anthropology

Angel Martínez-Hernáez is a Distinguished and ICREA-Academia Professor of Medical Anthropology and Head of the Medical Anthropology Research Centre at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain. He is the author or co-author of more than 30 books and reports and 120 book chapters and articles in journals such as Social Science and Medicine, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, Medical Anthropology, and BMJ Global Health, among others. His books include What’s behind the Symptom? On Psychiatric Observation and Anthropological Understanding (2000). Lina Masana holds a PhD in Medical Anthropology, and is a researcher and teacher at the University Rovira i Virgili and the University of Barcelona, Spain. A specialist in ethnographic methodology, qualitative applied health research and analysis of illness narratives, she has authored or co-authored about 40 publications. She has worked extensively on the topic of the experience and management of chronic illnesses (chronicity) and related areas such as disability, dependency, public policies, and global health.