# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Thorny Matters: Health politics between ethics, law and life in SWANA
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 20 Apr, 2026 at 09:00 am – Tue, 21 Apr, 2026 at 05:00 pm (+01:00)
- **Event Description**: Join Exeter's Healthscapes network for a workshop on health politics in Southwest Asia and North Africa.About this EventThorny Matters: Health politics between ethics, law and life in SWANAPlease join the University of Exeter’s Healthscapes network on 20th-21st April 2026 at Reed Hall for a workshop on Thorny Matters: Health politics in between ethics, law and life in South-West Asia and North Africa.Histories of contentious health phenomena have struggled to escape a focus on the formal bioethical deliberations and disputes within and between legal and medical institutions. Moreover, such histories often remain entrenched in frameworks of ‘metropole-periphery’. In our increasingly precarious times, it seems more crucial than ever to think about healthscapes as fluid, interconnected sites shaped by, and shaping, flows of people, concepts, technologies and commodities, at local, regional, and planetary scales. Understanding health phenomena means thinking more deeply, too, about multiplicities of knowledge and experience, and the often informal, or private, manners of their expression and exchange. These represent ontological and pragmatic challenges. They arise not only in definitions of wellness and crisis, but in pursuits of wellbeing that are navigated as ‘thorny matters’ within and between various domains of life – such as the clinic, the courtroom, the laboratory, the family, the legislature, the school room, the bedroom, and the street.This workshop seeks to address these matters with a geo-cultural focus on South-West Asia and North Africa and associated diasporas across the globe, where such issues have been understudied in the recent decade of revival in the Medical Humanities and Social Sciences. This focus on a region that can be viewed as a ‘laboratory’ for understanding relationships between ethics and religion, law and (geo)politics, as well as lived experience, promises to break new ground for thinking about health phenomena.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/exeter/thorny-matters-health-politics-between-ethics-law-and-life-in-swana/100001984047859557
- **Event Categories**: health-wellness, workshops, nonprofit
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Exeter
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Reed Hall
- **lat**: 50.7352572
- **long**: -3.5374864
- **full address**: Reed Hall, Streatham Drive, Exeter, United Kingdom

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Thorny Matters: Health politics between ethics, law and life in SWANA being held?
  - **A:** Thorny Matters: Health politics between ethics, law and life in SWANA takes place on Mon, 20 Apr, 2026 at 09:00 am to Tue, 21 Apr, 2026 at 05:00 pm at Reed Hall, Streatham Drive, Exeter, United Kingdom.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Thorny Matters: Health politics between ethics, law and life in SWANA?
  - **A:** Thorny Matters: Health politics between ethics, law and life in SWANA is organized by Healthscapes Network.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Thorny Matters: Health politics between ethics, law and life in SWANA is ideal for learners, working professionals, and skill-builders looking to gain hands-on knowledge and practical expertise in a focused, interactive setting. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Exeter, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Thorny Matters: Health politics between ethics, law and life in SWANA sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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