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GORO YAMAZAKI (山崎 吾郎)


Field of expertise
Cultural Anthropology, Medical Anthropology

Keywords
body, medical technology, bio-economy, gift theory, organ transplantation

Professional Memberships
Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology, Japanese Society for Science and Technology Studies


Biography
2010-present Specially apponted researcher, Graduate school of Human Sciences, Osaka University , JAPAN

2008-2009 Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre Edgar-Morin, EHESS, FRANCE. [→link]

2007-2010 Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, PD(Center for the Study of Communication-Design, CSCD

2008 Ph.D. in Human Sciences, Osaka University, JAPAN

2005-2007 Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, DC2.(Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University)

Recent Publications(in Japanese)


(in press) "Persons and bodies in organ donation: Rethinking the gift in the age of bioeconomy", Cultural Anthropology 76(3).

(in press) "Hybrid Bodies", Cultural Anthropology 76(3).

2011c "Experience of the brain death and its justice", in Kasuga, Naoki (ed.) Anthropology as Reality Critique, Sekaisisousya, pp.141-160.

2011b "Biopolitics and governmentality today", Higaki, Tatsuya (ed.)Biopolitics today, Keiso-syobo, pp. 217-250.

2011a "Bioeconomy of organ transplantation: from cure to governance", Higaki, Tatsuya (ed.)Biopolitics today, Keiso-syobo, pp.15-46.

2010 "Human action in hybrid milieu", Communication-Design 3, Suita: The Center for the Study of Communication-Design, CSCD, Osaka University, pp. 56-65.

2009 "Giving and selling the body: the economy of organ transplantation", in Tatsuya Oda and Juntaro Fukada (eds.) KITARUBEKI JINRUIGAKU vol.2 KEIZAI KARA NO DASSYUTSU, Yokohama: Shumpusha, pp.167-192.

2008 "Brain death: understanding and practice of scientific knowledge (=Noushi: Kagakuchishiki no rikai to jissen)," in Naoki Kasuga (ed.) JINRUIGAKU DE SEKAI WO MIRU, Kyoto: Minerva Shobo.

2007 "Organ transplantation and globalization: a case study of overseas transplantaion (=Global-ka no naka no ishoku iryou: kaigai-tokou-ishokusha no sentaku)," in Sachiyo Ukigaya et al. (eds.) The ties that bind: an ethnography of the interface between illness and community, Tokyo: Akashi Shoten, pp.181-204.

2006 "Body image of the recipients in organ transplantation: on partialization of human body (=Zouki ishoku ni okeru shintai ninshiki: shintai no buhin-ka ni kansuru ichi-kousatsu)," in Tateki  Sugeno (ed.) Transdisciplinary Studies of Embodiment, Suita: Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, pp.55-62.

2005 "Anonymous exchange system and reconstruction of the body (=Tokumei no koukan to shintai no sai-kouchiku)," Annals of Human Sciences 26, pp. 259-275, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University.

Other articles(in Japanese)
2009 "Dispositifs", Communication-Design 2, Suita: The Center for the Study of Communication-Design, CSCD, Osaka University, p.194.

2008b "Embeddedness,"Communication-Design 1, Suita: CSCD, Osaka University, p.213.

2008a "Agency," Communication-Design 1, Suita: CSCD, Osaka University, p.212.

Translation(English to Japapese)
2011 "Intensive filiation and demonic alliance"(Eduardo Viveiros de Castro), Gendai-Shiso 39-16: 170-209.

2010 "Lévi-Strauss and Bird Flu: How to Do the Structural Anthropology of a Virtual Catastrophe"(Frédéric Keck), Gendai-Shiso 38-1: 239-245.


Academic Presentations(in English)
2010 "From cure to Governance: a biopolitical scene aftere the brain death controversy in Japan", The 35th Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), University of Tokyo, JAPAN (2010.8.26)

2009 "Making the gift economy work: the case of organ trade", Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Celebrating 50 Years of Interdisciplinarity, Yale University, USA (2009.9.26)

Update: 24 Nov. 2011




email: yamago[at]hus.osaka-u.ac.jp