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Lydie Fialová studied medicine, philosophy, and cultural history in Prague and Tübingen, social anthropology in Edinburgh and London, with research and clinical internships in Spain, Mexico, and Israel, and postdoctoral fellowship in history and philosophy of science in Boston. After a brief period of clinical training in child psychiatry, she has been teaching medical ethics, anthropology, and humanities for over a decade, most recently at Edinburgh Medical School. Taking a career break to homeschool her children in the Scottish Highlands and devoting time to reading in ecology and ecological humanities, she has also been contributing as a writer, researcher, and consultant to international projects in ecological medicine and planetary health, ethics, and medical education, collaborating with Heidelberg University, Charles University, The New School of the Anthropocene, and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. She designed and is involved in collaborative teaching of two courses for international medical students: “Being Alive. Humans in the Web of Life,” based on readings from biology, anthropology, and philosophy; and “Health Impacts of the Ecological and Climate Crises.”
RCC Research Project: Making Planetary Health Relevant Locally: Designing an Integrative Diagnostic Framework for
Participatory, Community- and Place-Based Research and Systemic Intervention
Selected Publications:
- “Medicine’s Humanism: Inspiration of the Twentieth Century.” In The Bloomsbury Companion to Contemporary Philosophy of Medicine, edited by James A. Marcum. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016. http://doi.org/10.5040/9781474233033.
- “Trespass, Crime, and Insanity: The Social Life of Categories.” In The Clinic and the Court: Law, Medicine and Anthropology, edited by Ian Harper, Tobias Kelly, and Akshay Khanna. Cambridge University Press, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139923286.
- with Petr Kouba and Martin Špaček, eds. Medicína v kontextu západního myšlení [Medicine in the Context of Western Thought]. Galén/Karolinum, 2008.
- “Dětský autizmus v pohledu genetiky a vývojové neurobiologie” [Childhood Autism from the Perspective of Genetics and Developmental Neuroscience]. Psychiatrie 11, no. 4 (2007): 220-25.