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Allan Young
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Latest papers
Medical anthropology enters the 21st century.
The Journal of nervous and mental disease · 2011 · first author
A time to change our minds: anthropology and psychiatry in the 21st century.
Culture, medicine and psychiatry · 2008 · first author
Remembering the evolutionary Freud.
Science in context · 2006 · first author
Latest funding
- $65,800
Ethnographic investigation of the social brain
SSHRC · 2012 · Principal investigator
- $47,992
Social origins of post 9/11 trauma and resilience
SSHRC · 2006 · Principal investigator
- $32,651
Modernité, souffrance sociale et psychopathologie
SSHRC · 1999 · Co-investigator
3 publications.
Medical anthropology enters the 21st century.
Young A, Rees T
A time to change our minds: anthropology and psychiatry in the 21st century.
Young A
Remembering the evolutionary Freud.
Young A
Ethnographic investigation of the social brain
Principal investigators: Young, Allan AY.
Keywords: anthropology of knowledge; anthropology of science; anthropology of mind and brain; traumatic memory
Social origins of post 9/11 trauma and resilience
Principal investigators: Young, Allan
Keywords: traumatic memory; social construction of medical knowledge
Modernité, souffrance sociale et psychopathologie
Principal investigators: Bibeau, Gilles
Centre d'excellence sur l'immigration, l'intégration et la dynamique urbaine
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
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