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 Medical Anthropology Conference
“Culture, Health, and Global Transformations: Ethnographic Perspectives”
February 24, 2006


Organized by Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila, Dulce Natividad, and Robert Frey



On February 24, 2006, doctoral medical anthropology students in the Sociomedical Sciences Department shared their proposal ideas, initial findings from fieldwork, and preliminary results from their dissertations. Departmental faculty served as discussants and posed challenging questions and criticisms, as well as encouraged the students’ work.

This project was truly a collective and collaborative undertaking.

 Panel 1:

Culture, Health and Political Economy

Presenters:
 Elanah Uretsky: New China, New Life … Sex Included: The Rise of
the Individual in post-Mao Urban China

 Le Minh Giang: The Irony of Agency in Space: Displacement and
Vulnerability in Two Highways in Vietnam

 Shao-hua Liu: Contested Responses to Emerging
Epidemics of Heroin in Southwest China

Discussants: Professors Carole Vance and Lesley Sharp
Chair: Professor Miguel Muñoz-Laboy

For photos from Panel 1, click here.

 
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 Panel 2:

Migration, Gender, and Health

Presenters:
 Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila: Transnational Identities: The Intersection of Migration, Masculinity and Sexuality in the Experience of Peruvian Men in NYC and Peru

 Debra Pelto: Intimate Negotiations: Gender, Power and Heterosexuality among Mexican Immigrants in NYC

Discussant: Professor Jennifer Hirsch
Chair: Dina Feivelson

For photos from Panel 2, click here.

 
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 Panel 3:

Sexualities and the State

Presenters
:
 Pardis Mahdavi: Iran’s Sexual Revolution: The Intersection between Sexuality and Politics in Iran

 Brian B. Johnson: Politics of Fertility, Politics of Mortality:  State Control, Interculturality, and Maternal Death in Bolivia

 Alicia Peters: Local Actors and US Anti-trafficking Policy: Interpretation, Meditation, and Implementation

Discussant: Professors Kim Hopper and Mark Padilla
Chair: Svati Shah

For photos from Panel 3, click here.

 
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 Panel 4:

Sexual Health and Mental Health

Presenters:
 Christopher Alley: HIV Prevention: The Cutting Edge of
Circumcision?

 Robert Frey: Death as a Way of Life: Envisioning an Israeli/
Palestinian Ethnography of Grief/Loss

Discussant: Professor Robert Sember
Chair: Dulce Natividad

For photos from Panel 4, click here


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