Society for Medical Anthropology Biennial Meeting - March 25-29, 2008
From the SfAA program (found here)
Thursday Mar 27 |
(TH-05) THURSDAY 8:00-9:50
St. Louis
Women’s Experience across the Life Cycle, Part I (SMA)
CHAIR: GROVES, Katy (U Alabama)
GROVES, Katy (U Alabama) “It Girl” or “That Girl”: Eating Disordered Behavior and
Cultural Consonance among Sorority and Non-Sorority Women
GILLESPIE, Katherine (U Arizona) Girls Growing Up “At Risk”: How Anthropology Can
Inform a Public Health Project on the Experiences of Adolescents in Low Income Neighborhoods
COPELAND, Toni (U Alabama) HIV-Positive Women in Nairobi, Kenya: Women's Narratives
on Living with HIV
(TH-09) THURSDAY 8:00-9:50
Memphis
Health Education: Promoting Efficacy and Cultural Competency (SMA)
CHAIR: WETMORE-ARKADER, Lindsay K. (U Penn)
WETMORE-ARKADER, Lindsay K., BRYAN, C., CALVANO, T., and DEATRICK, J.A.
(U Penn), GIRI, V. (Fox Chase Cancer Ctr), WATKINS BRUNER, D. (U Penn) Adapting
Ethnically-appropriate, Information-seeking and Recruitment Messages for a Prostate Cancer
Screening Program Using Focus Groups
MACPHEE, Marybeth and SKOLNIKOFF, Jessica (Roger Williams U) Health Promotion in
an Environment of Conflict and Scarcity: The Sociopolitics of Physical Education in the Northeast
United States
DONALDSON, Jackie (U Maryland) Barriers to Accessing Health Education Workshops: Client
and Staff Perceptions
KUTALEK, Ruth and PRINZ, Armin (Med U-Vienna) Teaching Medical Anthropology to
Medical Students: A Challenge
HOTIMSKY, Sonia Nussenzweig (U São Paulo) Obstetric Training: Competence and Care in
DUGAN, Terry M., HANSEN, Helena, TRUJILLO, Manuel, BECKER, Anne, LEVIN,
Ze'ev, BERNSTEIN, Carol, and CALIGOR, Eve (NYU, Bellevue Hosp) Training the Next
Generation in Culture and Mental Health
(TH-12) THURSDAY 8:00-9:50
Chattanooga
How Does “Culture Count” in American Mental Health Care?: Exploring the
Complexities of Culture and Care in a Dynamic Urban Setting (SMA)
CHAIRS: WILLEN, Sarah S. and GOOD, Mary-Jo Delvecchio (Harvard U)
GOOD, Mary-Jo DelVecchio (Harvard U) Design and Preliminary Findings of a Multi-Sited
Qualitative Study of How “Culture Counts” in American Mental Health Care
HANNAH, Seth (Harvard U) Constructing Cultural Competence: How the Conflation of Race
and Culture Hampers the Development of Appropriate and Effective Interventions
CARPENTER-SONG, Elizabeth (Harvard U) Deconstructing Difference: Patients Speak Out
About Care in Diverse Settings
WILLEN, Sarah S. (Harvard U) Avoiding “Mickey Mouse Explanations”: Challenges to
Cultural Sensitivity Training among Psychiatry Residents in Boston
RAHIMI, Sadeq (Harvard U) Power, Structure, and the “Culture” of Psychiatry
(TH-23) THURSDAY 10:00-11:50
Heritage IV
Reproductive Constraints: Addressing Current Reproductive Health-care Policies
(SMA)
CHAIRS: SMITH-OKA, Vania (U Notre Dame) and BRAFF, Lara (U Chicago)
KUAN, Chen-I (Syracuse U) Discourse Analysis of Motherhood in Cesarean Birth in Taiwan
PETERSON, Caroline (U S Florida) Bridges and Birthing on the Border
BRAFF, Lara (U Chicago) Fertility Care and “Overpopulation”: Imagining Mexico’s Social
Body
SMITH-OKA, Vania (U Notre Dame) Are Fewer Always Better?: An Examination of Mexican
Population Policies
NAHAR, Papreen (ICDDR) Invisibility of Childless Women in Bangladesh: Policy and
Programme Perspectives
DISCUSSANTS: MORGAN, Lynn M. (Mount Holyoke) and WHITEFORD, Linda (U S
Florida)
(TH-24) THURSDAY 10:00-11:50
St. Louis
Women's Experience across the Life Cycle, Part II (SMA)
CHAIR: GIBSON, Erica (U Florida)
GIBSON, Erica (U Florida) Birth Practitioners: Does Choice of Practitioner Make a Difference
in Outcomes?
VALDEZ-CURIEL, Enriqueta (Universidad de Guadalajara) Mexican Women Left Behind:
Dealing with Issues of Migration, Depression, and Borrowed Power
JACKSON, Meredith (U Alabama) What is a Good Pregnancy?: Examining Intracultural
Variation in Southern Jalisco, Mexico
RAHIM-WILLIAMS, F. Bridgett (U Florida), WILSON, Ruth P. (San Jose State U), and
MILLS, Terry (Morehouse Coll) Interrupted Lives: Self-Management of Diabetes Mellitus
among African American Women
(TH-30) THURSDAY 10:00-11:50
Knoxville
Subjectivities and Wellbeing in Child Circulation (SMA)
CHAIR: WOLSETH, Jon (Luther Coll)
HOUGH, Carolyn (Augustana Coll) Absence as Protection: The Case of Out-Fostering among
Gambian Women with Few Children
MARAESA, Aminata (New York U) Baby Jane Doe: Anonymity, Adoption, and the
Anthropologist in Southern Belize
MCCULLOUGH, Megan (Wheaton Coll) Distributed Mothering and State Concern: Aboriginal
Social Reproduction and Governmentality
PICKARD, Lea (Luther Coll) Health Care Politics as Usual: Reproduction, Immigration, and
the Circulation of New American Citizens
WOLSETH, Jon (Luther Coll) Circulating through the System: Street Youth Subjectivities and
De-Criminalization in Dominican Law
(TH-41) THURSDAY 12:00-1:30
Heritage II
For Love and Money: Employment Opportunities in Medical Anthropology (SMA)
CHAIRS: PRITCHARD, Katherine (U Memphis) and VALDEZ, Amorita E. (U Michigan)
PANELISTS: BLANCHARD-HORAN, Christina (Soc & Sci Systems Inc), FELDMAN,
Douglas A. (SUNY-Brockport), HEURTIN-ROBERTS, Suzanne (DHHS), MANDERSON,
Lenore (Monash U), RUSSELL, Jamie (TN State DOH), RYLKO-BAUER, Barbara
(Michigan St U), and SINGER, Merrill (CHIP, U Connecticut)
(TH-63) THURSDAY 1:30-3:20
Heritage IV
Embodied Danger: The Health Costs of War and Political Violence (SMA)
CHAIR: INHORN, Marcia C. (U Michigan)
LEATHERMAN, Tom (U S Carolina) The Costs of Conflict: Uneven Effects of the Sendero
Luminoso Revolution in Southern Peru
BERRY, Nicole (Simon Fraser U) Legacy of Violence: The Challenge of Safe Motherhood
Post-Civil War Guatemala
SARGENT, Carolyn (S Methodist U) Maternité, Liberté, Egalité: Burning Cars and Health
Costs in the Immigrant Suburbs of Paris
GRUENBAUM, Ellen (Cal State-Fresno) No Safety: The Destruction of Health in Darfur,
INHORN, Marcia C. (U Michigan) The Public Health Costs of War in Iraq: Lessons from
War Lebanon
KING, Diane E. (U Kentucky) Fieldwork and Fear in Iraqi Kurdistan
(TH-64) THURSDAY 1:30-3:20
St. Louis
International Health Workers: Opportunities Lost and Found (SMA)
CHAIR: SPITZER, Denise (U Ottawa)
SPITZER, Denise (U Ottawa) Globalization, Health and Foreign Domestic Workers
PYLYPA, Jen (Carleton U) The Challenges and Integration Experiences of Immigrant Health
Workers in Canada
METCALFE, Jonathan (Case Western Reserve U) Increasing HIV Testing Uptake among
Zimbabwean Health Workers: An Alternative Approach
MINN, Pierre (McGill U) Between a Fund and a Hard Place: The Place of Haitian Medical
Professionals in International Health Projects
CLOSSER, Svea (Emory U) Underpaid Workers as “Volunteers”: Corruption Allegations and
Worker Exploitation in the Polio Eradication Initiative
BRUA, Charles (Penn State U) “Unofficial” Medical Knowledge as a Resource in Immigrant
Communities
(TH-70) THURSDAY 1:30-3:20
Knoxville
Food Security and Malnutrition (SMA)
CHAIR: COSMINSKY, Sheila (Rutgers U)
COSMINSKY, Sheila (Rutgers U) and MARKOWITZ, Diane (Rowan U) Food Security among
Hispanic Migrant Farmworkers in Southern New Jersey
YOUNG, Sera (Cornell U), KHALFAN, Sabra (Pemba Hlth Lab), KAVLE, Justine (Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg Sch of Pub Hlth), RASMUSSEN, Kathleen, PELTO, Gretel, and
STOLTZFUS, Rebecca (Cornell U) Craving Clay and Starch: A Test of Nutritional and
Medicinal Hypothese
HIMMELGREEN, David, WATSON, Sharon, WORKMAN, Cassandra, and ROMERODAZA,
Nancy (U S Florida), and OKELLO-UMA, Ipolito (Nat’l U Lesotho) Measuring Food
and Economic Security: Are Researchers and Community Members on the Same Page?
SNOVER, Keirsten (E Washington U) Rickets as a Disease of Development: An Example from
Kenya
RODLACH, Alexander (Creighton U) AIDS Is in the Food: Disease, Nutrition, and Social
Change in Zimbabwe
(TH-71) THURSDAY 1:30-3:20
Chattanooga
Emerging Trends in HIV Studies (SMA)
CHAIR: PETERSON, James (George Washington U)
PETERSON, James (George Washington U) Ethnographic Methods in the Monitoring and
Evaluation of a City-Wide HIV Screening Campaign: The Washington DC Example
ROOT, Robin (Baruch Coll-CUNY) Preaching Risk: Pastors, Pulpits, and HIV in Northern
Swaziland
BRENTON, Barrett P. (St. John’s U) and MAZZEO, John (DePaul U) HIV/AIDS and Food
Insecurity: “New Variant Famine” in Southern Africa?
MAZZEO, John (DePaul U) Food Security and HIV/AIDS in Rural Zimbabwe
HUGHES, Shana (U S Florida) Policy in Context: HIV/AIDS in Porto Alegre, Brazil
MARTIN, Samantha (S Methodist U) Moving Past Fear: The Perception and Stigma of HIV
(TH-84) THURSDAY 3:30-5:20
St. Louis
Gender Based Violence: Global Governance, Local Law, and Violence Against
Women (SMA)
CHAIR: ABRAMOWITZ, Sharon (Harvard U)
ABRAMOWITZ, Sharon (Harvard U) Law, Tradition, and Humanitarian Vision: GBV Practices
in Liberia
ZHANG, Lu (Ohio State U) Translating the Transnational Concept of Violence against Women:
Domestic Violence Network in China, a Local Story
LEE, Hyeon Jung (Washington U-St. Louis) The Role of Gender in Suicide and Suicide
Prevention Programs in Rural China
VINDROLA PADROS, Cecilia (U S Florida) Exploring the Complexity of Domestic Violence in
San Gregorio, Mexico
DUKE, Michael R., AMES, Genevieve M., and BERGMANN, Luke J. (Prev Rsch Ctr/ PIRE)
The Influence of Periodic Unemployment on Intimate Partner Violence and Substance Abuse
among Construction Workers and Their Families
SHAHBAZI, Mohammad (Jackson State U) War and Public Health
(TH-89) THURSDAY 3:30-5:20
Nashville
Anthropologists and Health Care Environments: Engaging in Design and
Healthcare Delivery Processes (SMA)
CHAIRS: GIL, Vincent E. (Vanguard U) and FRANEY, Bart (Ctr for Hlth Design)
MARE, Gregory C. and WALTERS, Stephanie (Karlsberger), CAMA, Rosalyn (CAMA Inc)
Dublin Methodist Hospital: Applying Evidence-based Design in a Race to Revolutionize
Healthcare
FRANEY, Bart (Ctr for Hlth Design), CHADHURY, Habib (Simon Fraser U), and
MAHMOOD, Atiya (OSU-Coll of Hlth & Hum Sci) The Effect of Environmental Design on
Reducing Nursing and Medication Errors in Acute Care Settings
FRANEY, Bart (Ctr for Hlth Design), FENDRICK, Stephanie, KOTZEN, Mike, and
GHANDI, Tejas (Virtua Hlth) Process-driven Design: Virtua Health Plans a Greenfield Campus
GIL, Vincent E. (Vanguard U) Assisting a Regional Multispecialty Hospital in China in
Implementing an HIV/AIDS Ward: What's Culture Got to Do with It?
DISCUSSANT: FRANEY, Bart (Ctr for Hlth Design)