Section: Research Student Profiles

Hanna Mantila

Name
Hanna Mantila
Title
Organisation
Social Anthropology, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
Edinburgh UK
Telephone
E-Mail
Research Interests
Anthropology of Pharmaceuticals,Transcultural psychiatry,Psychopharmaceuticals,Medical Anthropology,Biomedical knowledge(s), practices and technologies
URL
http://www.san.ed.ac.uk/research_students/hanna_mantila

PhD Title

Psychiatric Practice and Psychopharmaceutical Prescriptions in Hong Kong

 

Supervisors 

Dr. Stefan Ecks

Professor Francesca Bray

 

Affiliations

The Chinese University of Hong Kong - Honorary Research Assistant

The University of Hong Kong - Visiting Scholar 

 

Qualifications

BA Chinese (Modern and Classical), School of Oriental and African Languages      Dissertation: From Biology to Karma - An investigation into scientific and popular attitudes towards mental illness in late Imperial China (2006 - 2010)
Including studies at Beijing Normal University (2007 - 2007)

MSc Anthropology of Health and Illness, University of Edinburgh                         Dissertation: Diagnosis as Continuum - Global Psychiatry and Neurasthenia in the People's Republic of China (2010 - 2011)
 

Awards

2+ ESRC Full studentship


 


 

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