Society for Medical Anthropology Biennial Meeting - March 25-29, 2008
From the SfAA program (found here)
Wednesday Mar 26 |
(W-07) WEDNESDAY 8:00-9:50
Beale
Medical Anthropology in the U.S. Heartland (SMA)
CHAIR: JANZEN, John (U Kansas)
CARROLL, Shawna Lee (U Kansas) Cultural Construction of Disease Risk: A Measure for the
Social Reproduction of Health
FILIPPI-FRANZ, Melissa (U Kansas) “It’s been 9 years and she needs to take the test!”: Somali
Women’s Pursuit of US Citizenship
HERYNK, James W. (U Kansas) Malnutrition is the Abnormal-Normal: Oppression and Life at
the Threshold in Guatemala
SOBONYA, Sarah (U Kansas) Witnessing Genocide: The Effects of Violence on Rwandan
Children as Expressed through Drawings
WEIR, Maria (U Kansas) “Already the First Victims of the Next Pandemic”: The Impact of
Avian Influenza on Developing Nations and Vulnerable Populations
DISCUSSANT: GRUENBAUM, Ellen (Cal State-Fresno)
(W-08) WEDNESDAY 8:00-9:50
Natchez
Transforming Biomedical Practice (SMA)
CHAIR: GRAHAM, Janice (Dalhousie U)
GRAHAM, Janice (Dalhousie U) Regulating Emerging Biologics: Practices, Policies and Risk
BRISTOW, Katie (Liverpool Sch of Trop Med) What Next for Medical Anthropology?: Learning
from the Thirty Years since Alma Alta
SAHOTA, Puneet (Washington U-St. Louis) The Conflation of Biomedical Research and Health
Care in a Native American Community: Ethical Considerations
GAILLOT, Sarah (Pardee RAND) Barriers to Seeking Mental Health Care Following a Sudden,
Unexpected Physical Injury
BALES, Rodney (U N Texas) Mental Health Literacy Over Time
HARVEY, T.S. (UC-Riverside) A Call to Competency: Critiquing the Caricature of Culture in
Medicine
(W-09) WEDNESDAY 8:00-9:50
Memphis
Aged to Perfection: Health among Older Adults (SMA)
CHAIR: JENIKE, Brenda (Lawrence U)
DAHLBERG, Britt (U Penn) The Role of the Mind in Depression: A Cultural Model for the Mind
among Older Adults
COSTLEY, Alex W. (Columbia U, NYPH) “I Can Manage”: The Measure and the Meaning of
Daily Life among the Urban Elderly
ROSEN, Rosamaría, YEN, Irene, and BARKER, Judith (UC-San Francisco) Neighborhood
Health for Older Adults: A Qualitative Exploration of Participation in Health-Relevant Activities
SIPOS, Jessica Busch (U Hawaii-Manoa) “Healthy University” and Other Clubs for the Elderly:
Grassroots Community Efforts to Promote Health and Longevity in Rural Southern Japan
JENIKE, Brenda (Lawrence U) Changing Meanings of Elder Care in Japan under Long-Term
Care Insurance
DAHLBERG, Britt (U Penn) “My Nerves Got Bad”: A Cultural Model for Nerves among Older
Adults in the United States
(W-12) WEDNESDAY 8:00-9:50
Chattanooga
Health, Bodies, and Embodiment (SMA)
CHAIR: MORGAN, Lynn M. (Mount Holyoke)
DREW, Elaine and RICHARDS, Qwynten (U Alaska-Fairbanks) The Art of Science:
Development of a Culturally Relevant Body Image Instrument among Yup’ik Eskimos
VILADRICH, Anahi (CUNY-Hunter) Paradoxical Body Images among Latina Women: Between
Guitar-Shaped Bodies and Mainstream (Skinny) Figures
LAYNE, Linda (Rensselaer) Protecting Men’s Reproductive Health/Preventing Pregnancy Loss:
A Conversation with Prof. Cynthia R. Daniels, Political Science, Rutgers University
VANDERLINDEN, Lisa K. (Texas Christian U) Operationalizing Ethnicity, Essentializing
Ethnicity: Cultural Competency in a German Clinic
CONKLIN, Beth A. (Vanderbilt U) and MORGAN, Lynn M. (Mount Holyoke) The Wari’ Were
Right: The Relevance of Ethnoscience to Biomedical Interpretations of Fetal Cell Microchimerism
HILDEBRAND, Vanessa (Washington U) Missed Opportunities: Engaging the Full Potential of
Clinic Midwives in Rural Indonesia
(W-27) WEDNESDAY 10:00-11:50
Natchez
Ethnomedicine and Biomedicine: Collaboration, Competition, and Change (SMA)
CHAIR: COREIL, Jeannine (U S Florida)
SUNDAL, Mary (U Kansas) Bribed, Beaten, and Berated: How Biomedicine Fails Karimojong
CASUCCI, Brad (Case Western Reserve U) Controlling Flies or People?: Trachoma
Intervention and the Maasai of Kenya
BONANDER, Heather (Washington State U) Medical Preferences in a Dominican Village
KENNELL, James (S Methodist U) Spirit Possession and Infectious Disease in Southern Benin
NELSON, Matthew (U New Mexico) Navajo Area Indian Health Service: Balancing Wellness
and Tradition
SIMPSON, Kelly, COREIL, Jeannine, and HAMILTON, Elizabeth (U S Florida) Refinement
of an Acculturation Instrument for Haitian Americans
(W-28) WEDNESDAY 10:00-11:50
Memphis
Journey’s End: Coping with Death and Dying (SMA)
CHAIR: DRUMMOND, Karen Dalzell (Hendrix Coll/U Arkansas-Little Rock)
DRUMMOND, Karen Dalzell (Hendrix Coll/U Arkansas-Little Rock) ”Getting Comfortable
with Opiates”: Third-Year Residents Learning Pain Management in a Palliative Medicine
Rotation
CHAPPLE, Helen (Creighton U) Rescue, Stabilization, and Transformation: The Ritual of
Intensification
RUSS, Ann J. (U Rochester Med Ctr) Depression and End-of-Life Decision-making among Older
Dialysis Patients
SOUZA, Margaret (SUNY, Empire State Coll) Dying and Bereavement
DRUSINI, Andrea G. (U Padua) The Mirror and the Double in Tarahumara Culture (Northern
Mexico): Ancient and Modern Roots of Anguish of Death
(W-64) WEDNESDAY 1:30-3:20
St. Louis
Negotiating HIV, Personhood, and Identity (SMA)
CHAIR: BARRINGTON, Clare (U S Carolina)
MURCHISON, Julian (Millsaps Coll) ART, Personhood, and Social Identity: “Hope” and
Change in Southern Tanzania
WOOD, Summer (New York U) and LEE, Jessica (U Colorado-Boulder) Tanzanian Deaf
Culture in the Age of HIV/AIDS: Intersecting Disabilities and Pragmatic Responses
KOTANYI, Sophie (SAI-Heidelberg) and KRINGS-NEY, Brigitte (Karl Ruprecht U) Culturally
Sensitive Introduction of HIV-AIDS Prevention through Initiation Rituals of Rural Girls in
Mozambique
KAPOOR, Celina (Wayne State U) I Just Tell’em I’ve Got Cancer: Using Narratives to
Understand the Complexity of HIV/AIDS Related Stigma
BARRINGTON, Clare (U S Carolina) La Vida Normal: Living with HIV/AIDS in Santo
Domingo, Dominican Republic
PEPLINSKI, Kyle (Georgia State U) The Effects of Antiretroviral Access on the Creation and
Maintenance of HIV Seropositive Identity
SIBLEY, Candace (U North Texas) I Am a Woman Phenomenologically: Stories of African
American Women Living in Dallas, Texas
(W-66) WEDNESDAY 1:30-3:20
Beale
Struggles with Chronic Illness and Suffering (SMA)
CHAIR: MILES, Ann (W Michigan U)
SALAZAR, Guadalupe (San Jose State U) Childhood Chronic Illness: Discourses of Pain and
the Self
MILES, Ann (W Michigan U) Emerging Chronic Illness: Ecuadorian Women’s Lupus Narratives
BROOKS, Benjamin Blakely (U Alabama) Chocake: A Cultural Model of Suffering among
Peruvian Andean Highlanders
HAY, M. Cameron (Miami U, UC-Los Angeles) Helplessness in the Experience of People with
Autoimmune Disease
BARKEY, Nanette (U Iowa) Coping with War Trauma in Angola: The Long-term Health
Consequences
PATTISON-CISNA, Sally J. (S Methodist U) Negotiating the Borderlands of Self, Healing, and
Policy: Young Latino Immigrant Journeys with Addiction and Recovery in U.S. Suburbia
(W-67) WEDNESDAY 1:30-3:20
Natchez
Re-Conceiving Maternal-Child Health (SMA)
CHAIR: PULVER, Elizabeth M. (U Memphis)
CATTANEO, Jessica (U Toronto) Ideologies of Motherhood, Reproductive Rights, and Family
Planning in Indigenous Argentina
HAMILTON, Alison (UC-Los Angeles) Craving and Pregnancy among Women
Methamphetamine Users
LOW, Lisa Kane and TUMBARELLO, Julie (U Michigan) College Students Responses to
Language of Childbirth
CHEYNEY, Melissa (Oregon State U) Tracking Outcomes: The Politics of Homebirth and
Maternal-Fetal Health Surveillance
PULVER, Elizabeth M. (U Memphis) Cosleeping in Context: Practices and Perceptions of
Mothers, Healthcare Providers, and Health Information Providers
DECARO, Jason (U Alabama) and WORTHMAN, Carol M. (Emory U) When Stress Isn't
Stressful
(W-70) WEDNESDAY 1:30-3:20
Knoxville
Organizational and Institutional Influences on Health (SMA)
CHAIR: BRIODY, Elizabeth K. (General Motors)
NOVAK, Laurie L. (Vanderbilt U) Informatics, Clinical Practice and Professional Reflexivity in
Nursing
ALTIMARE, Emily (Michigan State U), FINGER, Pam and BRIODY, Elizabeth (General
Motors), and TROTTER II, Robert T. (N Arizona U) Nurses as Mediators in Health Care
Complexity
BUCKSER, Andrew (Purdue U) Agency, Culture, and Institutional Structures in Tourette
Syndrome
BRIODY, Elizabeth K. (General Motors), TROTTER II, Robert T. (N Arizona U), FINGER,
Pam (General Motors), ALTIMARE, Emily (Michigan State U) Linking Words and Drawings
across Organizational Cultures: Understanding Differences in Health Care Conceptualizations,
Goals, and Policy
FINGER, Pamela J. (General Motors), ALTIMARE, Emily L. (Michigan State U), TROTTER
II, Robert T. (N Arizona U), and BRIODY, Elizabeth K. (General Motors) Building Trust
across Organizational Boundaries in Healthcare
(W-89) WEDNESDAY 4:30-6:30
Nashville
SMA Plenary Session: The Political Construction of Global Infectious Disease
Crises
CHAIRS: FINERMAN, Ruthbeth (U Memphis), MANDERSON, Lenore (U Monash), and
SARGENT, Carolyn (S Methodist U)
MANDERSON, Lenore (Monash U) Containing Fear: Notes on an Economic History of
Epidemics and Infection
OBRIST VAN EEUWIJK, Brigit (U Basel) Malaria: A Health or Development Issue?
RENNE, Elisha P. (U Michigan) The Politics of Polio
FELDMAN, Douglas A. (SUNY-Brockport) The Politics and Stigma of Global HIV/AIDS
SMITH-NONINI, Sandy (U NC-Chapel Hill) The (Drug-resistant) Consumptives Are Coming!:
Policing the Bacillus
BRIGGS, Charles L. (UC-Berkeley) Virtual Crises of Infectious Diseases: The
Biocommunicable Production of a West Nile Virus “Threat”
NICHTER, Mark (U Arizona) Community Response to Avian Flu in Central Java, Indonesia
(W-91) WEDNESDAY 3:30-5:20
Chattanooga
Immigrant Worker Safety and Perceptions of Risk: Problems and Methods in the
Cognitive Anthropology of Work (SMA)
CHAIR: JACOBSON JR., C. Jeffrey (U Cincinnati)
JACOBSON JR., C. Jeffrey (U Cincinnati) Occupational Safety Compared to What?: Where
Does Work Safety Fit in to the Latino Immigrant Worker Experience?
FLYNN, Michael, LAWSON, R., and EGGERTH, D. (NIOSH), JACOBSON, C.J. (U
Cincinnati) Bloody Noses, Heart Attacks, and Other Emotional Problems: The Importance of
Cognitive Testing in Survey Adaptation and Development
DELANEY, Sheli and GONG, Fang (CDC, NIOSH), STOCK, Laura (UC-Berkeley), AYALA,
Linda (Public Authority for In-home Supportive Services), and BARON, Sherry (CDC, NIOSH)
Focus Group Research Among Homecare Workers: Exploring the Benefits for Occupational
Safety Training