2-0385 AFRICA AND THE BIOLOGICS OF HEALTH: THE LEGACIES AND EMBODIED TRACES OF INTERVENTION.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011: 14:00-17:45

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Organizers:  Kristin Peterson (UC Irvine) and vinh-Kim Nguyen (University of Montreal)
Chairs:  Kristin Peterson (UC Irvine)
Discussants:  Duana Fullwiley (Harvard University ) and Elisio Macamo (University of Basel)
14:00
Congo and the Biologics of Nervousness
Nancy Rose Hunt (University of Michigan)
14:30
The Clinic of Hope: Biocapitalist Promises, Vestiges of Science and the “Cameroonian” AIDS Vaccine
Guillaume Lachenal (Department of the History and Philosophy of Science/ Université de Paris, Diderot )
14:45
The Anthropology of "Treatment As Prevention" for HIV
vinh-Kim Nguyen (University of Montreal)
15:15
Break
15:30
16:00
When Cancer Became Another African STD
Julie Livingston (Rutgers University)
16:15
Discussant
Duana Fullwiley (Harvard University )
16:30
Discussant
Elisio Macamo (University of Basel)
16:45
Audience Discussion
17:00
Audience Discussion

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