14.7.2020 MAT www.medanthrotheory.org/read/7650/transfigurations-medical-anthropology-switzerland-austria-germany 1/6 MAT Medicine Anthropology Theory ≡ Transfigurations in/of medical anthropology in Switzerland, Austria, and Germany — Max Schnepf 01 Aug 2017 Cover picture from the Transfigurations conference program How can we conceptualize medicine, health, and healing in ever-changing economic, legal, technological, and political constellations? How do material and institutional, but also affective and emotional, dimensions of health-related practices, socialities, identities, experiences, and objects intersect at different scales, from the local and national to the transnational and global? How are these processes embodied, also with regard to different temporalities? The introduction of ‘transfigurations’, a concept that has so far not been used in medical anthropology, was intended to stimulate discussions about these questions. Both the concept and the conference around which it was based Menu