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Mansfield Foundation PodcastEp. 6: Japanese kinship and child welfare, with Kathryn GoldfarbWe're joined by Dr. Kathryn Goldfarb, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder. Our discussion focuses on how an anthropologist approaches Japan, how kinship is defined in Japan, and the issues facing child welfare systems.
Dr. Goldfarb, like each of our guests this season, is a member of the fifth cohort of the Mansfield Foundation’s U.S.-Japan Network for the Future.
Her academic profile is available at https://www.colorado.edu/cas/kathryn-e-goldfarb. Her analysis of COVID-19 on foster care alumni is available via th...2024-02-0531 min
Mental Health with Dr. Melissa MorkMental Health Awareness Month Replay: Alyssa's story of Disordered EatingThis week of Mental Health Awareness Month, we highlight those struggling with eating disorders. “My body was just trying to survive the restriction… and survive that torture that I had put it through for so many years.” Today’s guest is Alyssa, who struggled for years with an eating disorder. In this episode, Alyssa talks about her symptoms of Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa, ways she coped, her hospitalizations, ebbs and flows of the disease, and finally, an epiphany that changed the trajectory of her struggle. Host: Dr. Melissa Mork Producer: Keegan Goldfarb ...2023-05-2945 min
A Beleza da Vida - A Autoestima do Paciente Oncológico05. Pelo sim, pelo não"Pelo sim, pelo não”. Este é o tema do Episódio 05 da série de Podcasts "A Beleza da Vida – a autoestima do paciente oncológico". No diálogo com a dermatologista oncológica, Dra. Giselle Barros, vamos aprender dicas preciosas: como lidar com a perda dos cabelos e dos pelos que vão embora durante o tratamento oncológico, como cuidar do novo visual e nos preparar para quando o tratamento terminar. Aprendizados que iremos guardar por toda a vida! Agradecemos por você estar conosco e por nos ajudar a divulgar!
Apresentação: Vera Golik e Hugo Lenzi / Rep...2020-12-0744 min
Europe Japan Research Centre PodcastsProducing People Who Have No One: Child Welfare and Well-Being in Japan[Recorded 21st October 2020] Child welfare and well-being are fragile kin to each other. Such is the case in Japan, where the ethnographic data for this paper originate, but also across the world, as policy makers, caregivers, and people with experience in state care endeavor to imagine—and implement—child welfare systems that truly support well-being. Despite these efforts, social welfare systems too often “produce people who have no one,” in the words of one of my interlocutors. Child welfare policy and practice institutionalize particular visions of kinship relationships, with lasting effects on the people touched by these systems. Some of these sy...2020-11-161h 10