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Accepted Paper:

What kind of truth do medical researchers want from anthropologists and why are they so often angry about the result?  
Robert Pool (University of Amsterdam)

Paper short abstract:

Based on more than 20 years of collaboration with medical researchers, the paper reflects on the kinds of expectations that powerful medical research institutions have when they engage anthropologists, and what it is about the results that anthropologists present to them that either makes them enthusiastic, excites feelings of anger and betrayal, or leaves them cold. It also examines the kind of truths that anthropologists present to their medical collaborators and about these collaborations and reflects on the ways in which these truths are constructed.
Panel P18
What is truth? - reflections on 'the world's' responses to anthropological knowing
  Session 1