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Jamie Saris is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, NUI Maynooth.  He has been working for more than twenty years in medical and psychological anthropology in Ireland, North America, and parts of Africa, where he has researched and made significant contributions to understanding such diverse issues as the social life of mental hospitals, the experience of major mental illness, colonialism and its aftermath, how poverty/structural violence structures the lifeworld of sufferers, health services research, drug use and abuse, and HIV risk and treatment.