Pooran Chand Joshi

Prof. Pooran Chand Joshi

P. C. Joshi (born 1 June 1956 at Village Khairakot, Manan, Almora) is a Professor of Social Anthropology at the Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi, India. His area of specialization is Medical Anthropology and he focuses on Anthropology of Disasters, Anthropology of Development and on issues related to Social Exclusion and Adverse Inclusion.

Education

P. C. Joshi received his B.Sc. (Hons.), M.Sc., M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology from the University of Delhi, India. He did advanced courses on "Anthropology and Epidemiology: integrating concepts and methods" and "Health of Unstable Populations – Health Care in Unstable Situations and Complex Emergencies" at the Department of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health, University of Heidelberg, Germany, in 2003 and 2007, respectively. He also attended Certificat d’ universite, Assessing Public Health in Emergency Situations, Universite Catholique de Louvain in Brussels, Belgium, 2007.

Career

Joshi started his teaching career in 1985 from Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University (HNBG) and served as Head of the Department of Anthropology until 1997. He joined the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences (IHBAS), New Delhi, in 1997 and held the position of Head Department of Medical Anthropology at IHBAS from 1997 through 2003. He is credited with establishing the Department of Anthropology at HNBG University and the Department of Medical Anthropology at IHBAS. He is currently Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Delhi, India.

Joshi was a delegate of the European Union at the United Nations Framework Climate Change Conference held at Poznan, Poland in 2008.[1]

Professional membership

Joshi was the first president of the Society for Indian Medical Anthropology[2] and Executive Member of the Ethnographic and Folk Culture Society based in Lucknow, India. He is a life member of the India Anthropological Association and a Life Fellow of the Indian Association of Social Psychiatry. He is the Editor of the Society for Medical Anthropology Bulletin.

Awards and honours

P. C. Joshi was a recipient in 1987 of the Indira Priyadarshini Vriksha Mitra National Award as a founder member of Friends of Trees, and the Inter-University Centre Associateship Award in Humanities and Social Sciences, 1996-1999, Certificate of Honour at the First France-India Meet on Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, 2007, Plaque of Appreciation from Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Xavier University Ateneo de Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines, 2008, and Certificate of Appreciation on his research on disaster impacts in Asia and Europe by Faculty of Public Health, University of Indonesia in 2009, among other honours and distinctions.

He also has the distinction of discovering a Paleolithic site in Delhi in 1983.[3]

Publications

Joshi has co-authored nine books, over 157 articles, book chapters and reviews in area of Medical Anthropology, Traditional Medicines, Shamanism, Impact of Disasters, Life Style Diseases and Antibiotic Resistance. He has worked on many research projects and submitted over 14 research reports to various funding agencies and government policy planning agencies. He has worked in interdisciplinary areas with psychiatrists, psychologists, epidemiologists and other researchers on various topics and co-authored many papers. His papers have appeared in the journals such as World Development, Indian Journal of Pharmacology, Man in India, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Indian Journal of Medical Research, Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics, and National Medical Journal of India.

Publications include:

References

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  2. ↑ ":: Welcome to Society for Indian Medical Anthropology ::". Medicalanthro.com. Retrieved 2017-04-24.
  3. ↑ "Faculty". Anthro.du.ac.in. 2015-02-05. Retrieved 2016-12-20.
  4. ↑ Joshi, P. C.; Mahajan, Anil (1990-01-01). Studies in Medical Anthropology. Reliance. ISBN 9788185047669.
  5. ↑ Aloke Kumar Kalla; P. C. Joshi (2004-01-01). Tribal Health and Medicines. Books.google.co.in. Retrieved 2016-12-20.
  6. ↑ "Risk factors for mortality and injury: post-tsunami epidemiological findings from Tamil Nadu". UNISDR. Retrieved 2017-04-24.
  7. ↑ "The Impact of Recurrent Disasters on Mental Health: A Study on Seasonal Floods in Northern India". Prehospital and Disaster Medicine. 2013. doi:10.1017/S1049023X13000290. Retrieved 2017-04-24. (Subscription required (help)).
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