4-0475 ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS TO HEALTH

Friday, November 18, 2011: 10:15-12:00

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

10:15

An Unearthly Crisis Unearthed: The Political Legacy of Landslides Rooted In the Public Planting of Bunun Landscapes In Taiwan

Shyh-Wei Yang (UC Riverside)

10:30

Biologizing Uncertainty: Depleted Uranium and Genomic Aberration In Gulf War Syndrome

David Elijah Bell (SUNY University at Buffalo)

10:45

Food Industry As Harm Industry: Functional Food, Ethical Eating and the Legacies of the Body/Mind Distinction

Dylan Gordon (University of Toronto)

11:00

Denying Risk and Inviting Disaster: The Exposure of Maya Peoples to Cyanobacteria At Lake Atitlán, Guatemala

T.S. Harvey (University of California at Riverside)

11:15

Navigating Disease Discourse: Schistsomiasis and Infertility In Rural Southeast Kenya

Jennifer M Zabel (Case Western Reserve University)

11:30

Risky Fieldwork: Ethical Concerns On Medical Anthropologists Working with Vulnerable Population

Francesca Meloni (McGill Univesrity, Department of Social and Cultural Psychiatry, Transcultural Research and Intervention Team (TRIT))

11:45

Discussion

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