Braiding in the Clinic: A Conversation with Dr. Dara Bramson

Join Dr. Bramson for a discussion exploring the concept of “braiding knowledges” in a pluralistic clinical context. Dr. Bramson introduces her fieldwork in North India on Tibetan medicine in exile, sharing her engagement with braiding in this context. This exploration aims to illuminate the tangible practices, successes, and challenges of braiding and related methods.

Dr. Bramson asks: How can/does Indigenous knowledges (IK) and western science (WS) unite and coexist as different but equal knowledge systems in an increasingly global healthcare landscape? 

Dara Bramson is a medical anthropologist who is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the NSF Center for Braiding Knowledges and Science (CBIKS) at UMass Amherst. She completed her PhD in cultural anthropology at Tulane University in 2025.