Oral Presentation Session - Volunteered

Reviewed by: Society for Medical Anthropology

(2-0045) Biomedical Technologies and Their Consequences

Presenter(s)

• Bridget Cotner

  US Department of Veterans Affairs

Chair(s)

• Daniela Heil

  Senior Lecturer
  University of Newcastle, Australia

Presenter(s)

• Daniela Heil

  Senior Lecturer
  University of Newcastle, Australia

• Vanessa Moreno

  Graduate Student
  San Francisco State University

• Taylor Silverman

  Researcher
  Brown University

• Marie Svensson

  PhD fellow
  The Danish Heart Foundation & Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen

• Chunchun Wang

  Ph. D. Candidate
  Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Presentations:

• 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM

  Revisiting Anthropological Imagination within the German Nation-State: Working with a Detour Via the Ukraine to Turn Assumed Illegal Matters Into Legal Ones
  Daniela Heil – University of Newcastle, Australia
• 12:15 PM - 12:30 PM

  Hidden scars: (In)visible lives with congenital heart defects
  Marie Kofod Svensson – The Danish Heart Foundation & Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen
• 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM

  Defining “Symptoms” and “Side Effects”: The Work of Separating Help and Harm in Neurosurgery
  Taylor Silverman – Brown University
• 12:45 PM - 1:00 PM

  Ancestry Isn't the Past, It's the Future: Human Genetics Research and Race
  Vanessa Moreno – San Francisco State University
• 1:00 PM - 1:15 PM

  WHAT MAKES THE APPEARANCES OF PROSTHETICS SO IMPORTANT TO USERS IN CHINA
  Chunchun Wang – Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• 1:15 PM - 1:30 PM

  Provider-identified strategies to implement electronic tools to improve health care delivery
  Bridget Cotner – US Department of Veterans Affairs