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Registration for session 5 of the Seminar on Global Mental Health is open

Silence and social suffering: an ethnography of adolescents who suffer from bullying, by José Ignacio Lavin, will be the theme of Session 5 of the Seminar on Global Mental Health.

Published the book Subjectivities and Afflictions in Medical Anthropology

I joint seminar Catalonia-Chile: "Challenges of health care for adolescents and young people"

The MARC will develop the first joint Catalonia-Chile seminar with the title: "Challenges of health care for adolescents and young people"

Performing Brains on Screen, new book by Fernando Vidal

The book Performing Brains on Screen, by researcher Fernando Vidal, which will be published next month, deals with the cinematographic representation of the brain.

The Polish newspaper Tygodnik Powszechny conducts an interview on vaccination for covid-19 in Spain with three MARC researchers

First Session of the Seminar on Global Mental Health

The new MARC space: Tuesday Seminar on Global Mental Health began last January. The cycle of seminars has the support of the International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research and Service (ICEERS), the Department of Anthropology, Philosophy and Social Work (Dafits) and the Doctorate in Anthropology and Communication.

Here we leave at your disposal the first session where Global Mental Health, the right to science and psychoactive plants were discussed:

The second session will be on February 22. We will provide information on this soon.

MARC will hold a seminar on Global Mental Health

MARC, together with other institutions and departments, will hold a seminar for the debate on Global Mental Health starting in January

The final report of the project "Care Matters" was presented

The final report of the project "Care Matters. Gender impact on caregivers of the elderly and dependents in times of Covid-19 "was presented by Professor Dolors Comas on December 16

Serena Brigdi presented preliminary results of her research at conferences on sexual and reproductive health of migrant women in Catalonia

The reproduction of practices and beliefs of their cultures during pregnancy and the puerperium, as well as the communication difficulties that sometimes emerge during the care of Chinese and Pakistani women living in Catalonia are some of the results presented by Serena Brigdi as part of her study

Presentation of the report of the project "Elderly and Dependent Care (CuMaDe)"

Professor Dolors Comas will present the report of the Project "Care matters. Gender impact on caregivers of the elderly and dependents in times of Covid-19" next Thursday 16