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Research My research focuses on health and illness in urban settings, specifically in Baltimore, Maryland. The theoretical emphasis of my research is on concepts of patienthood and the institutions that mediate and shape such concepts. Conference organized with Paola Marrati (Humanities) and Jane Bennett (Political Science) Concepts of Life, November 3-4, 2006 [with Henri Atlan (EHESS), Veena Das (JHU), Shigehisa Kuriyama (Harvard), Eleanor Kaufman (UCLA), Ruth Leys (JHU), Emily Martin (NYU), Evelyn Fox Keller (MIT), Paul Rabinow (UC Berkeley), Margaret Lock (McGill U)] Teaching Visiting Researcher, Centre de Recherche Médecine, Sciences, Santé et Société (CERMES), Villejuif, France, October-November 2007 Visiting Lecturer, Université de Picardie-Jules Verne, Faculté de Philosophie Sciences Humaines et Sociales, Equipe de Recherche Épistémologie, Histoire des Sciences Biologique et Médicales Amiens, France, November-December 2006 Honors and Awards Ruth L. Kirschstein Fellowship (2006-2009), National Research Service Award, National Institutes of Health Dissertation Research Award (2006-2007), National Science Foundation, Science & Society Section Dean’s Teaching Fellowship, “The Concept of the Patient in Anthropology,” Awarded December 2005, Scheduled Spring 2007 J. Brien Key Graduate Summer Research Fellowship, Summer 2005 Selected and Forthcoming Publications (2004-Present) Georges Canguilhem Knowledge of Life (La Connaissance de la vie, Vrin, 1952) translated by Stefanos Geroulanos and Daniela Ginsburg; edited and introduction by Todd Meyers and Paola Marrati. New York: Fordham University Press. (forthcoming 2008) Paola Marrati, Jane Bennett, Todd Meyers, editors. Concepts of Life. Stanford: Stanford University Press. (forthcoming 2008) François Delaporte. Anatomy of the Passions (Anatomie des passions, PUF, 2003) translated by Susan Emanuel; foreword by Todd Meyers. Stanford: Stanford University Press. [edited and foreword by Todd Meyers] (forthcoming 2008) Meyers, T. "Book Review - Prescribing by Numbers: Drugs and the Definition of Disease. Greene, J." Gesnerus: The Swiss Journal of the History of Medicine (forthcoming 2007) Meyers, T. “A Turn Towards Dying: Presence, Signature, and the Social Course of Chronic Illness in Urban America.” Medical Anthropology 2007; 26 (3) Meyers, T. and Baxstrom, R. “Book Review – Pier Paolo Pasolini and Death, Schwenk, B. and Semff, M., eds.” Parachute 2006 124: 153. Baxstrom, R., Geroulanos, S., Meyers, T. “Dead Man de Jim Jarmusch: La poésie du fusil Arriflex” Rue Descartes 2006 53: 116-119. Meyers, T. and Baxstrom, R. “Cinema Thinking Affect: The Hustler’s Soft Magic.” Parachute 2006 121: 98-118. [also appearing in French] Meyers, T., Leonard, L., Ellen, J.M. “The Clinic and Elsewhere: Illness, Sexuality and Social Experience Among Young African-American Men in Baltimore, Maryland.” Culture, Medicine, & Psychiatry 2004 28 (1): 67-86. Meyers, T. “Book Review (combined) – Aging in Today’s World: Conversations between an Anthropologist and a Physician. Shield, R. and Aronson, S.M. and Gray Areas: Ethnographic Encounters with Nursing Home Culture. Stafford, P.B., ed.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 2004 18 (4): 519-520. Meyers, T. “Book Review – The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice. Mol, A.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 2004 18 (4): 520-521. Presentations (2004 to Present) Meyers, T. "In, Between: Defining Therapeutics Between Institution in the United States." American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C. November 2007 [scheduled] Meyers, T. "Matching drug treatment services to the recovery process: treatment needs, service patterns, and matched to the recovery process." Discussant. Joint Meeting of Adolescent Treatment Effectiveness (JMATE), Washington, D.C., April 25-27, 2007 [scheduled] Meyers, T. “La clinique rêve le social.” Invited Lecture, Epistémologie, Histoire des sciences, Université Picardie Jules-Verne, Amiens, France, January 23, 2006. Meyers, T. “Maladie sans signes.” Invited Lecture, Centre d'Études du Vivant, l'Université Paris 7- Denis Diderot, Paris, France, January 20, 2006. Meyers, T. “Le concept du patient.” Invited Lecture. Faculté Lariboisière - Master Ethique médicale et droit de la santé, Paris, France, January 19, 2006. Meyers, T. and Baxstrom, R. “Representations of Adolescence.” Workshop Presentation. Emergent Forms of Life and the Child Emergent, Johns Hopkins University/Rockefeller Foundation, Child on the Wing: Children Negotiating the Everyday in Geographies of Violence. Baltimore, Maryland, December 7, 2005. Meyers, T. “The Clinic Outside: Technology, Contagion, and Delinquency in Venereal Disease Clinics in the United States During the Early Twentieth Century.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., December 2, 2005. Clemmey, P., Meyers, T., Subramaniam, G. “Treatment of Adolescent Heroin and Opiate Use Disorders: Clinical and Policy Implications.” Workshop, Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse, Bethesda, Maryland, October 29, 2005. Meyers, T. “La presence, le mourir et l’anthropologie du patient.” Vie, concepts, institutions. Colloquia Presentation. Collège International de Philosophie (CIPh), Paris, France, May 18, 2004 Meyers, T. “Failing to Follow: Therapy, Efficiency, and Delinquency in Venereal Clinics in the United States, 1910-1939.” Conference Presentation – American Association for the History of Medicine, Madison, Wisconsin, May 1, 2004 Links PARACHUTE, revue d’art contemporain (Montreal, Canada) Le Collège international de philosophie (Paris, France) Concepts of Life - Conference CERMES - Centre de Recherche Médecine, Sciences, Santé et Société |
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