2-0565 GEOGRAPHIC LEGACIES, EMBODIED FUTURES: TRACING PLACE IN MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

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Wednesday, November 16, 2011: 16:00-19:45

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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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