Potentiality and humanness: Revisiting the anthropological object in contemporary biomedicine: Wenner-Gren symposium supplement 7

摘要

Potentiality and Humanness: Revisiting the Anthropological Object in Contemporary Biomedicine is the seventh Wenner-Gren Symposium to be published as an open-access supplement of Current Anthropology and the 144th symposium in the Wen-ner-Gren symposium series (see http://www.wennergren.org /history/conferences-seminars-symposia/wenner-gren-sympo-sia for a complete list of symposia and the history of the symposium program). The Potentiality and Humanness symposium was organized by Klaus Hoeyer (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) and Karen-Sue Taussig (University of Minnesota, U.S.A.) and was held October 28 to November 4, 2011, at the Hotel Rosa dos Ventos, in Teresópolis, Brazil (fig. 1).