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2-0565 GEOGRAPHIC LEGACIES, EMBODIED FUTURES: TRACING PLACE IN MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Wednesday, November 16, 2011: 16:00-19:45

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Those involved in mentoring activities, Students, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers:  Alex M Nading (Franklin and Marshall College)
Chairs:  Pierre H Minn (UCSF - UC Berkeley)
Discussants:  Claire L Wendland (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Ramah McKay (Princeton University)
16:00
Reconfiguring Malaria Epidemiology Through Place, the Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) and Mosquitoes
Monica A Hoffman (University of California-San Diego)
16:15
Characterizing the “home” of a Global Pandemic: The Case of Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis In Tugela Ferry, South Africa
Erica C Dwyer (University of Pennsylvania)
16:30
Emergence, Infrastructure and the Localization of Infectious Disease In Urban Nicaragua
Alex M Nading (Franklin and Marshall College)
16:45
Everything In Its Place: Spatial Ontologies In Pandemic Disease Management
Natalie H Porter (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
17:00
“Landlocked and Mostly Rural:” Place, Politics and the Life Story of Malawi’s AIDS Epidemic
Crystal L Biruk (Brown University)
17:15
Discussant
Ramah McKay (Princeton University)
17:30
Discussion
17:45
Break
18:00
Medical (Re)Placements: Emergent Forms and Spaces of Care In Mexico City
Andrea Maldonado (Brown University)
18:15
Creating "Healthy" Places: How Can Theories of Place-Making Help Us Understand Zulu and Biomedical Healing Practices In Pholela?
Abigail H. Neely (University of Minnesota)
18:30
A Tale of Two Births: Transnational Health Care In Multiethnic Mexico
Rosalynn Adeline Vega (University of California-Berkeley/University of California-San Francisco)
18:45
Enacting Uneven Spaces: Tumaini’s Journey From Place to Space within a Tanzanian Hospital
Noelle C Sullivan (University of Florida)
19:00
Discussant
Claire L Wendland (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
19:15
Discussion
19:30
Discussion
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