Program



June 13th, 2011


9:30 10:10

Opening Plenary Session
Building A, room no. 5
 Prof. Leszek Kolankiewicz, Director of the Institute of Polish Culture
Prof. Danuta Penkala-Gawęcka, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland

10:15 — 10:55
Building B, room no. 200

Biomedicine, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), and religious healing (1)
Natalia Weimann, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland & Dr. Vlad Naumescu, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

Eva Jansen, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, The Embodiment of Resistance: Naturopathy in South India

Roman Sieler, University of Heidelberg, Germany, Patient Agency Revisited: “Healing the Hidden” in Varma Maruttuvam in South India

Building A, room no. 5

Reproduction and population politics
 Edit Szenassy,
Charles University in PragueCzech Republic & Dr. Erica van der Sijpt, University of AmsterdamNetherlands

Maria Węgrzynowska, Dublin City University, Ireland, My Health in My Own Hands: Polish Women's Healthcare Strategies During Pregnancy and Birth-Giving

Lorena Anton, University of Bordeaux 2, France, University of Bucharest, Romania, Be(com)ing a Socialist Mother and its Legacies: Politics of Reproduction and “National Health” during Ceauşescu’s Romania


10:55 — 11:15


Break: 20 min.


11:15 — 12:15

Hadrien Munier, Lumière University Lyon 2, France, Self, Lwa and Haiti: Adherence Process and “Reinvention of the Self” by a Therapeutic Use of Haitian Vodou in Montreal

Nahar Papreen, University of Durham, UK, Invisibility of Infertile Women in Bangladesh: Policy and Program Perspectives


12:15 — 14:30

LUNCH

14:30 — 15:45
Building B, room no. 200

Biomedicine, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), and religious healing (2)

Anna Pietrzyk, University of Lodz, Poland, Anthropological Aspects of Biofield Energy Healing in Poland

Michał Jakub Kocikowski, University of Warsaw, Poland, Charismatic Healing Prayer as a Practice of Complementary Medicine

Maja Dobiasz, University of Warsaw, Poland, Anthroposophical Medicine

Building A, room no. 5

Migration and health
Susann Huschke,
Free University of BerlinGermany
& Dr. Stéphanie Larchanché, Centre Françoise Minkowska, IRIS-EHESS, Paris, France

Monika Kujawska, University of Wroclaw, Poland, Continuation and Change in Medical Practices of Polish Migrants in Subtropical Part of Argentina

Polina Aronson, University of Warwick, UK, Restructuring Home in Health Beliefs and Help-Seeking Practices: Migrants from 
Ex-USSR in Berlin


15:45 — 16:00

Break: 15 min.

16:00 — 17:30
Ramdas Sahienshadebie, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, Cruel Diseases, Cruel Treatments: Treating Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Suriname with Potentially Harmful Non-Biomedical Chemical Substances

Pauline Huet, Paul Cézanne University, France, New Age and Neo-Shamanistic Movements in Brittany (France): In Search of a Soul Therapy

Nolan Kline, University of South Florida, USA, Migrant Oral Health in Central Florida: Exploring Social Inequalities and Exclusion from Health Services

Saphia Mokrane, Paul Cézanne University, France, Access to Medical Care for Illegal People in Brussels



June 14th, 2011

10:00 — 10:50
Building B, room no. 200

Health revisited: understanding the search for well-being in social, economic, emotional and political contexts (1)
Pauline Huet,
Paul Cézanne University, France
& Dr. Izabella Main, Adam Mickiewicz UniversityPoznanPoland

Nicole Gilchrist, University of Edinburgh, UK, Shifting Focus: A Move to Well-Being

Natalia Weimann, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, Health Centred Design

Building A, room no. 5

Social life of medical technologies and pharmaceuticals (1)
Caroline Meier zu Biesen,
Free University of Berlin, Germany
& Dr. Claire Beaudevin, Paris Descartes UniversityFrance

Susanne Ådahl, University of Helsinki, Finland, Knowing the Dialysis Machine: Enactment of Survival Scripts in Machine — Patient Interaction

Elsa Mateus, University of Lisbon, Portugal, The Social Life of a Biological Therapy


10:50 — 11:05


Break: 15 min.

11:05 — 12:30

Piotr Szenajch, The Graduate School for Social Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, The Death We Talk About and the Dying in the Eyes of Hospice Patients

Anna Wójcik, University of Warsaw, Poland, Social Consequences of Travel Tourism in Poland — Case Study: Duszniki Zdrój



Sarah Blacker, University of Alberta, Canada, Inside the Laboratory of a Racial Project: On NitroMed’s Construction of the Concept of “Race-Specific” Medicine

Emanuele Bruni, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, Poverty, Researchers and Health Professionals: Ethnography of a Public Health Intervention on an Unknown Liver Disease in NW Tigray (Ethiopia)


12:30 — 14:00

LUNCH


14:00 
— 
15:15
Building B, room no. 200

Health revisited: understanding the search for well-being in social, economic, emotional and political contexts (2)

Kim Bartholomæussen, Aarhus University, Denmark, Health Care Workers in Denmark

Carys Banks, University of Cambridge, UK,
Interpreting and ‘doing’ care in a supported living environment for intellectually disabled adults: some findings from a preliminary ethnographic study.


Building A, room no. 5

Social life of medical technologies and pharmaceuticals (2)

Britta Rutert, Free University of Berlin, Germany, On the Social Life of a Molecule

Valérie Liebs, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany, Neither “Modern” nor “Traditional”? Use and Meaning of Medicinal Plant Products in Kinshasa

Sandra Baernreuther, University of Heidelberg, Germany, Technologies in Circulation: Assisted Reproduction in India

Building A, room no. 9

Mental health and psychiatry
Nina Grube, University of MünsterGermany
& Dr. Johannes Quack,
University of Heidelberg, Germany

Agata Sikora, University of Warsaw, Poland, Salomea Słowacka-Bécu — a Depressed Woman or Sensible Heart? Sentimental Emotionality at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century and Modern Conceptions of Mental Health

Małgorzata Anna Charyton, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, Stress and Stress-Coping Strategies in the Context of Medical Pluralism

Ruari-Santiago McBride, Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, A Genealogy of (Trans)gendered Discourse: Science, Civil Society and Gendered Citizenship in Neoliberal Britain


15:15 
— 
15:30


Break: 15 min.


15:30 
— 
16:30



Amanda Wilson, Central European University, Hungary, Strange Fruit, Strange Blood: The Body as Postindustrial Real Estate in a Former Southern U.S. Mill Town Turned “Biopolis”


Dr. Tom Widger, Brunel University, London, UK, Medicalization / Demedicalization of Mental Health Services in Sri Lanka and the UK: Exploring the Dynamics of a Global Exchange

16:45 — 17:15
Plenary Session: Closing discussion
Building A, room 5




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