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2-0670 MOVING BEYOND THE CLINIC: TRACING THE TIDEMARKS OF TECHNOLOGY IN MEDICINE
Wednesday, November 16, 2011: 18:00-19:45

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

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

Organizers:  Tanja Ahlin (Heidelberg University) and Bianca Brijnath (Monash University)
Chairs:  Tanja Ahlin (Heidelberg University) and Bianca Brijnath (Monash University)
18:00
A Comparative Ethnography of An Illicit Practice: Young women’s Use of Abortion Pills In Laos, Cambodia and the Philippines
A.P. Hardon (University of Amsterdam)
18:15
High Enough Fevers: Thermometers, Biopower, and the Surveillance of Indigenous Children During the H1N1 Flu Outbreak In Chile
Jennifer R Guzman (University of California, Los Angeles)
18:30
Online Idioms of Distress In Biomedicine and Ayurveda
Tanja Ahlin (Heidelberg University) and Bianca Brijnath (Monash University)
18:45
From Case Western to West Africa: Ideologies of Immunization Technologies (1940s-1960s)
Etienne Gosselin (McGill University)
19:00
Doctors, Rabbis and Women! Oh My! Reproductive Health Care Among the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Community In Jerusalem
Michal Raucher (Northwestern University)
19:15
The Internet, Expert Patients and Medical Practice: An Analysis of the Literature
André Pereira Neto (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz)), Helena Beatriz da Rocha Garbin (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation) and Cristina Guilam (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation)
19:30
Discussion
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