4-0150 CONCEPTUALIZING POWER/KNOWLEDGE IN MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: THE MEETING OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF HEALTH

Friday, November 18, 2011: 08:00-09:45

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

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

Organizers: Thurka Sangaramoorthy (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/ Emory University)

Chairs: Seth M Holmes (University of California Berkeley)

Discussants: Michael Montoya (University of California - Irvine)

08:00

Treating the Numbers: HIV/AIDS Surveillance and Subjectivity

Thurka Sangaramoorthy (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/ Emory University)

08:15

Health, Genetics and Aboriginality In Taiwan

Jennifer A Liu (University of Waterloo)

08:30

Elusive Evidence: How Scientists Imagine the Endings of Female Genital Cutting

Saida Hodzic (Cornell University)

08:45

Gone Viral: Multispecies Ethnography and the Geography of Blame In the Mekong

Benjamin H Hickler (Tufts University Department of Environmental and Population Health)

09:00

How Suffering Becomes An Event: Migrant Farm Work and Public Health

Seth M Holmes (University of California Berkeley)

09:15

Healthcare Information Technology and Nurse Subjectivation

Adrienne Pine (American University)

09:30

Discussant

Michael Montoya (University of California - Irvine)

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