2-0670 MOVING BEYOND THE CLINIC: TRACING THE TIDEMARKS OF TECHNOLOGY IN MEDICINE

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Wednesday, November 16, 2011: 18:00-19:45

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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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