Oral Presentation Session - Volunteered

Reviewed by: Society for Medical Anthropology

(2-0130) New Anthropologies of Global Health

Chair(s)

• Ellen Block

  Assistant Professor
  College of St. Benedict/St. John's University

Presenter(s)

• Ellen Block

  Assistant Professor
  College of St. Benedict/St. John's University

• Yidong Gong

  PhD Candidate
  Duke University

• Jennifer Liu

  Associate Professor
  University of Waterloo, Department of Anthropology

• A. Jamie Saris

  National University of Ireland Maynooth

• Maria-Keiko Yasuoka

  Visiting Researcher
  Hokkaido University

Presentations:

• 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM

  China’s Medical Campaigns in Postwar South Sudan
  Yidong Gong – Duke University
• 12:15 PM - 12:30 PM

  De/Re-centering Global Health: Thinking from Taiwan
  Jennifer A. Liu – University of Waterloo, Department of Anthropology
• 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM

  50 years after the first organ transplant from a brain-dead donor in Japan: tracing Japanese cultural issues, 1968–2018
  Maria-Keiko Yasuoka – Hokkaido University
• 12:45 PM - 1:00 PM

  Legitimacy, Expertise and Scandal: Considering Professionalism in Medicine and Beyond
  A. Jamie Saris – National University of Ireland Maynooth
• 1:00 PM - 1:15 PM

  Theorizing Chance: (Un)Lucky encounters and health outcomes in southern Africa
  Ellen Block – College of St. Benedict/St. John's University