About me:

Welcome! My name is Alisha Maycock and I am currently studying Social Anthropology at The University of Manchester. My interests include medical anthropology; public health; health equity; humanitarian aid; the social determinants of health; refugee health; homelessness and health in conflict zones, amongst many others. 

 

As an undergraduate student very interested in medical practice and the medical humanities studying during the COVID-19 pandemic, I struggled to find a platform that would allow me to practice my ethnographic and qualitative research skills. Therefore, I have created this website as a way to explore my interests, chronicle my musings and deductions and exercise different research skills, both ethnographic and digital.

 

My website is a collection of different perspectives on medicine, health, hospitals, and disease: there is no set agenda, rather it is a platform for me to explore the interaction between culture and health. Most of these perspectives will be gathered from interviews I have and am conducting with healthcare professionals and others associated with and interrogating the medical field. 

 

I aim to highlight dimensions of healthcare and hospitals that perhaps go unnoticed and are not of primary focus when visiting a hospital or accessing healthcare. I also aim to discuss healthcare and illness in an interdisciplinary way as I explore the interrelationship between medicine, art, and photography. 

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 If you are someone within or not within the medical field and would like an informal platform to share your ideas or work, please do not hesitate to contact me. 

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Thank you so much for visiting this blog - I hope you find it interesting.

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Alisha 

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