Feb 4
Demarcating the Future(s): Genomics, Psychoanalysis, and the Chronotopes of Healing in Brazil
Join us for anthropology candidate Rogelio Scott Insua's research talk, "Demarcating the Future(s): Genomics, Psychoanalysis, and the Chronotopes of Healing in Brazil."
Rogelio Scott-Insua is a medical anthropologist working at the intersections of mental health, science & technology studies, and sociocultural epidemiology. His teaching and research focus on the trans/formations of mental health systems, healthcare reform, scientific controversies, and the geopolitics of science in Latin America, with a focus on Brazil. Rogelio’s scholarship points at understanding the development of mental health systems by focusing on cases and experiences that render visible the internal contradictions of Brazilian society, and the heterogeneity of Latin America before Global North paradigms. His current research analyzes the collaborations between genomic medicine and Lacanian psychoanalysis for treating patients diagnosed with neuromuscular dystrophies at a public, experimental genomic clinic in Sao Paulo. He is a PhD candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology at Cornell University, and holds an MA in Medical Anthropology and Global Health by Rovira i Virgili in Spain.