5-0240 MATERIALIZING PRESENCE, CONFIGURING PROXIMITY: ENGAGEMENTS WITH MEDICAL TELE-TECHNOLOGY AND EMERGENT PRACTICES OF CARE

Saturday, November 19, 2011: 08:00-11:45

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Students, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers: Vincent Duclos (University of Montreal) and Victor Braitberg (University of Arizona)

Chairs: Vincent Duclos (University of Montreal)

Discussants: Rachel E Prentice (Cornell University), Barry F Saunders (Social Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and Janelle S Taylor (University of Washington)

08:00

A Desire for Presence: Reincarnating Medical Expertise In a Geriatric Telemedicine Program

Victor Braitberg (University of Arizona)

08:15

Becoming Visible: PACS, Radiology, and the Cultivation of Presence In U.S. Hospitals

Allison A Tillack (UCSF)

08:30

Reconfiguring the Self With Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy in US Wartime Medicine

Emily C Cohen (Columbia University)

08:45

What You Do In Cyberspace May Reveal That You Are Sick or At Risk: The Internet As a Platform for Clinical Surveillance

Alberto Sanchez-Allred (McGill University)

09:00

Bandwidth for Life: The Pan-African e-Network Project, a Mobilizing Enterprise In Global Tele-Health Expertise

Vincent Duclos (University of Montreal)

09:15

Balancing Trust and Control: The Physician-Physician Relationship In a US-Based Urban Safety Net Teleretinal Screening Program

Allison E Fish (Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science and University of California, Irvine)

09:30

The Virtual Slide: Mediating Tensions Between Standardization and Professional Autonomy In US Biomedicine.

Matthew Iles-Shih (University of Utah and Oregon Health & Science University)

09:45

Break

10:00

The Craft of ‘connected autonomy’ In Home Telecare for Older People

Tomas Sanchez-Criado (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) and Miquel Domenech (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

10:15

Attuning Technology, Challenging Identity, Enacting Intimacy. Rethinking Intimacy with Ageing Telecare Users

Daniel Lopez (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

10:30

Careveillance of Aging Bodies As Proxemic Diffraction

Peter A Lutz (IT University of Copenhagen)

10:45

Discussant

Rachel E Prentice (Cornell University)

11:00

Discussant

Barry F Saunders (Social Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Social Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

11:15

Discussant

Janelle S Taylor (University of Washington)

11:30

Discussion

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