Florin Cristea, M.A.

Research associate | DFG third-party project "Afflicted Minds"

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  • Research

    Florin Cristea is a PhD candidate and research associate in psychological and medical anthropology. His research focuses on understanding the moral worlds of individuals diagnosed with severe psychiatric disorders. He engaged with the social and clinical life-worlds of people with a lived experience of the psychiatric encounter in Romania, Tanzania, and Indonesia. Furthermore, Florin Cristea has previously worked in an international project for the Robert Koch Institute, that examined people’s responses to Risk Communication and Community Engagement in Germany, Singapore, Nigeria, and Guinea. In his current project, “Afflicted Minds. International knowledge flows and the psychiatric experience in Bali and Java,” he investigates emerging biomedical narratives in Indonesia and their influence on the emotional experience and the moral worlds of people diagnosed with a severe psychiatric disorder and their caretakers. His project promises an in-depth description of how knowledge parameters and truth regimes assumed in Global Mental Health and Global Psychiatry influence personal and social illness trajectories and outcomes outside of the Global North by methodologically particularizing the highly diverse Balinese and Javanese therapeutic landscapes.

     

  • Research Focus

    • Psychological and Medical Anthropology
    •  Anthropology of Psychiatry
    •  Emotions and Morality
    • Morality and cognition.

  • Research Area

    • Indonesia
    • Romania
    • Tanzania

  • Publications

    Books (Monographs)

    • Cristea, Florin. Voices from the Tea Fields. Diangostic Uncertainty and Moral Agency in a Psychiatric Hospital in Northeastern Tanzania. Berlin, Germany: Weissensee Verlag, 2020.

    Articles

    Research Articles (Peer-Reviewed)

    • Geurts, Brogan, Heide Weishaar, Almudena Mari Saez, Florin Cristea, Carlos Rocha, Kafayat Aminu, Melisa Mei Jin Tan, et al. 2023. ‘Communicating Risk During Early Phases of COVID-19. Comparing Governing Structures for Emergency Risk Communication Across Four Contexts’. Frontiers in Public Health 11 (January): 1038989.
      https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1038989
    • Cristea, Florin, Heide Weishaar, Brogan Geurts, Alexandre Delamou, Melisa Mei Jin Tan, Helena Legido-Quigley, Kafayat Aminu, et al. ‘A Comparative Analysis of Experienced Uncertainties in Relation to Risk Communication during COVID19: A Four-Country Study’. Globalization and Health 18, no. 1 (27 June 2022): 66.
      https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-022-00857-x
    • Pozo-Martin, Francisco, Heide Weishaar, Florin Cristea, Johanna Hanefeld, Thurid Bahr, Lars Schaade, and Charbel El Bcheraoui. ‘The Impact of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions on COVID-19 Epidemic Growth in the 37 OECD Member States’. European Journal of Epidemiology 36, no. 6 (June 2021): 629–40.
    • Pozo-Martin, Francisco, Florin Cristea, and Charbel El Bcheraoui. ‘Rapid Review Der Wirksamkeit Nicht-Pharmazeutischer Interventionen Bei Der Kontrolle Der COVID-19-Pandemie’. Robert Koch Institut, 2020. https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus/Projekte_RKI/Rapid-Review-NPIs.pdf?__blob=publicationFile

    Weitere

    • Cristea, Florin. 2019. “What’s in a Name? Diagnostic Uncertainty and Moral Experience in a Mental Hospital in the Tanga Region of Tanzania.” Medizinethnologie. Körper, Gesundheit, und Heilung in einer Globalisierten Welt. https://www.medizinethnologie.net/whats-in-a-name-diagnostic-uncertainty-and-moral-experience-in-a-mental-hospital-in-the-tanga-region-of-tanzania/
    • Cristea, Florin. 2019. “The Hand of the Prophet. Understanding Coping Strategies by Means of the Senses.” In Visions4People. Artistic Research Meets Psychiatry., authored by Tyyne Claudia Pollmann, 226. Berlin, Germany: Jovis Verlag GmbH. (Summary of the Photo Essay with the same title presented during the Visions4People exhibition 29.01. – 07.02.2018, Campus Senat für Kultur und Europa)