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

2007-present 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)
(forthcoming)"Human action in hybrid milieu", Communication-Design 3, Suita: The Center for the Study of Communication-Design, CSCD, Osaka University.

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 organ 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.

Academic Presentations(in English)
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)

Academic Presentations(after 2006, in Japanese)
2008c "Human as a person / human as resources: biopower and economy", The workshop of biopower, Osaka University, Osaka, JAPAN, Jul. 24, 2008.

2008b "Subject and agency in organ donation", The Workshop of Conflict Studies in the Humanities, Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo, JAPAN, Jul. 12, 2008.

2008a "Death and gift: sanctity in organ donation"The 42st Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology, Kyoto University, Kyoto, JAPAN, May. 31, 2008.

2007b "Gift as fiction: economic aspects of organ transplantation," Reginal Meeting of Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology, Kyoto University, Kyoto, JAPAN, Dec. 15, 2007.

2007a "Medical and economic anthropology of organ transplantation," The 41st Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology, Nagoya University, Nagoya, JAPAN, Jun. 2, 2007.

2006b "Rationality and irrationality of brain death," The Workshop of Social Anthropology in Kobe University, Kobe University, Kobe, JAPAN, Nov, 15, 2006.

2006a "Networks and social imagination: in case of organ transplantation," The 40th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology, Tokyo University, Tokyo, JAPAN, Jun. 3, 2006.




Update: 8 Nov. 2009





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