Society for Medical Anthropology Biennial Meeting - March 25-29, 2008
From the SfAA program (found here)
Saturday Mar 29 |
(S-05) SATURDAY 8:00-9:50
St. Louis
Suffering and the Self (SMA)
CHAIRS: SELIGMAN, Rebecca (Northwestern U) and MCKINNEY, Kelly (McGill U)
SELIGMAN, Rebecca (Northwestern U) The Unmaking and Making of Self: Embodied Suffering
and Mind-Body Healing in Brazilian Candomblé
MCKINNEY, Kelly A. (McGill U) Psychopharmaceuticalizing Selfhood
LEIBING, Annette (U Montreal) The Empty House: People with Alzheimer’s and the Bio-Social
Transformation of Self
BARRETT, Ron (Emory U) Spirit, Self, and Suffering among Family Caregivers in Home
Hospice
GIORDANO, Cristiana (McGill U) “I am Afraid of Falling. Speak Well of Me, Speak Well for
Me.”: Reflections on the Case of a Migrant Woman’s Life and the Simulacra of Culture
WHITAKER, Mark (U S Carolina-Aiken) A Death, a Murder, and the Tsunami: Treating and
Conveying Trauma for Tamils in Sri Lanka and Toronto in the `New Media' Age
(S-10) SATURDAY 8:00-9:50
Nashville
Sexual Risk-Taking and Substance Use among Youth: Cross-Cultural Applied
Research and Health Policy (SMA)
CHAIRS: RAGSDALE, Kathleen (Mississippi State U) and MAHDAVI, Pardis (Pomona Coll)
KELLY, Brian C. (Purdue U) The Intersection of Norms and Markets in the Resurgence of
Cocaine in Club Subcultures
MAHDAVI, Pardis (Pomona Coll) Sex, Drugs, and Politics in the Islamic Republic of Iran: The
Politics of Risk for Urban Iranian Young Women
PANTIN, Marlene (Columbia U, Nat’l Dev Rsch Inst) Ambivalence about Marijuana Use among
High School Youth in Trinidad and Tobago: Implications for HIV Prevention
RAGSDALE, Kathleen (Mississippi State U), GORE-FELTON, Cheryl (Stanford U),
MCGARVEY, Elizabeth (U Virginia) High-risk Drinking and Sexual Activity among US College
Students: Does Fraternity/Sorority Membership Make a Difference?
ROBERTSON, Angela (Mississippi State U) Drinking, Drug Use, and Sexual Risk Behaviors
among Incarcerated Adolescent Girls in Mississippi
READ, Rebecca (Mississippi State U) Virgin of Guadalupe and Latino/as in Rural Mississippi
(S-11) SATURDAY 8:00-9:50
Knoxville
Searching for Social Inequalities in the Field of Health Disparities (SMA)
CHAIR: BURKE, Nancy J. and JOSEPH, Galen (UC-San Francisco)
BARKER, Judith C. (UC-San Francisco) and HORTON, Sarah (U Montana) Structural and
Policy Influences Sustaining Oral Health Disparities for Rural Latino Children
KEIRNS, Carla C. (U Michigan) Asthma Activism: Consumer Advice or Environmental Justice
JOSEPH, Galen and DOHAN, Daniel (UC-San Francisco) Clinical Trials Enrollment: What
Does It Mean as an Arena of Health Disparities?
GOLDADE, Kate (U Arizona) “Health is Hard Here” or “Health for All?: The Politics of
Blame, Gender, and Health Care for Undocumented Nicaraguan Migrants in Costa Rica
BURKE, Nancy J. (UC-San Francisco) Structural Barriers and Bahala Na: Social Inequalities in
Cancer Care for Filipina Immigrants
(S-24) SATURDAY 10:00-11:50
St. Louis
Development and Implementation of Global Health Policies: Case Studies from Sub-
Saharan Africa (SMA)
CHAIR: LEVY, Jennifer (U Toronto)
SIKSTROM, Laura (U Toronto) Putting Policy in Its Place: Reorienting Anthropological
Studies of Health Policy Making
KOSOVA, Ilona and SELLEN, Daniel W. (U Toronto) Infant Feeding and Food Insecurity in
Lesotho
WEBB-GIRARD, Aimee (U Toronto) Rapid Weaning to Prevent Mother to Child Transmission
of HIV: Are We Providing Mothers the Best Option?
LEVY, Jennifer (U Toronto) Women and Mothers: Terms of Engagement in Prevention of
Mother-to-Child Transmission Programs
CALLAGHAN, Mike (U Toronto) Gender Inequalities in Antiretroviral Therapy: Lessons from
Namibia
(S-53) SATURDAY 12:00-1:30
Oxford
Intra- and Inter-cultural Variation in Conceptual Knowledge: New Perspectives on
Latin American Health Beliefs (SMA)
CHAIRS: MAUPIN, Jonathan N. and TIMURA, Catherine (Vanderbilt U)
TIMURA, Catherine (Vanderbilt U) Understanding Conceptual Change in Illness Beliefs in
Pichátaro, Mexico
MAUPIN, Jonathan (Vanderbilt U) Transnational Migration and Conceptual Change among
Mexicans in Nashville, TN and Pichataro, Mexico
WALDRAM, James (U Saskatchewan) “I Don’t Know the Words He Uses”: Dissonance
between Q’eqchi’ Healers and Patients
DISCUSSANTS: WELLER, Susan (U Texas) and BAER, Roberta D. (U S Florida)
(S-67) SATURDAY 1:30-3:20
Natchez
Issues of Race and Health: How and What Can Anthropologists Contribute (SMA)
CHAIR: BAER, Roberta D. (U S Florida)
HUNT, Linda M. and MEGYESI, Mary (Michigan State U) Race as a Variable in Scientific
Research: A Question of Scientific Integrity
GRAVLEE, Clarence C. (U Florida) Meaning and Measurement of Race in Health Research:
Lessons from Hypertension in the African Diaspora
MEGYESI, Mary S. (Michigan State U) Are Racial/Ethnic Variables Really Helping?: An
Analysis from the Osteoporosis and Bone Density Literature
WELLER, Susan and NASH, Anita (U Texas) Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Diabetes
BAER, Roberta D. (U S Florida) Approaches to Changing Perspectives about the Role of Race in
Health
DISCUSSANT: DRESSLER, William W. (U Alabama)
(S-92) SATURDAY 3:30-5:20
Jackson
Cultural Competency in Health Care: “Studying Up, Down, and Sideways” (SMA)
CHAIRS: KHANNA, Sunil and CHEYNEY, Melissa (Oregon State U)
KHANNA, Sunil, CHEYNEY, Melissa, and ENGLE Molly (Oregon State U) Cultural
Competency Training for Health Care Providers: Outcome Evaluation Using Post-then-Pre
Testing
RACANSKY, Pam (U Washington) Eliciting the Health Care Provider and Administrator
Perspective in the Discussion of Cultural Competency
BEREKNYEI, Sylvia (Stanford U) Impact of Multifaceted Curriculum in Multi-Cultural Practice
on Medical Student Attitudes
BROWN, Richard A. (U Alabama) Genuine Therapy: Cultural Models and Clinical Context
HANDLEY, Anna and JOSEPH, Mary Allison (U S Carolina) When “Sort of Right” is Not
Enough: A Study of Medical Interpretation for Monolingual Spanish-speaking Patients in South
Carolina
DISCUSSANT: CHEYNEY, Melissa (Oregon State U)