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Friday, November 18, 2011: 08:00-11:45

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Organizers: Dominique P Behague (Brunel University) and Junko Kitanaka (Keio University)

Chairs: Jonathan M Metzl (Vanderbilt University)

Discussants: Emily Martin (New York University) and Laurence J Kirmayer MD (McGill University)

08:00

"Mind Food": Explaining Psychopharmaceuticals In India

Stefan Ecks (Edinburgh University)

08:15

Soviet Smart Drugs: Psychiatry, Cognitive Enhancement and Local Neurologies

Eugene A Raikhel (University of Chicago)

08:30

Pharmaceuticals, Depression, and Sinhalese Buddhism: ‘Preparedness’ for Anti-Depressants In Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka

Tom Widger (Brunel University)

08:45

Society In Distress: Japanese Psychiatric Discourses about Work, Stress, and Depression

Junko Kitanaka (Keio University)

09:00

The Making of Certainty - Antipsychotics and the Pharmaceutical Lifecourse

Annette Leibing (University of Montreal and University of Montreal)

09:15

Psychopharmaceuticalization and Pathologies of Adolescence In Southern Brazil

Dominique P Behague (Brunel University)

09:30

Discussant

Emily Martin (New York University)

09:45

Break

10:00

Pharmaconormalization: The gender politics of psychiatric drugs

Jonathan M Metzl (Vanderbilt University)

10:15

New Normal: Psychiatric Medication Usage On College Campuses

Eileen P Anderson-Fye (Case Western Reserve University) and Jerry E Floersch (Rutgers University)

10:30

The Ethical Architecture of University-Industry Collaboration In the Brain Sciences: Implications for Health, Innovation and the Development of Brain-Based Medicines In the U.S

Mark Robinson (Princeton University)

10:45

Psychopharmaceutical Globalization, Psychiatric Moral Entrepreneurship, and the New Global Mental Health Initiatives

Kalman Applbaum (University of Milwaukee)

11:00

Whence the Power of Pharmaceuticals?

David Healy (Cardiff University)

11:15

Human Nature, Empathic Cruelty, and Oxytocin

Allan Young (McGill University)

11:30

Discussant

Laurence J Kirmayer MD (McGill University)

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