Oral Presentation Session - Volunteered

Reviewed by: Society for Medical Anthropology

(3-1085) Conceptualizing Personhood, Distress, and Lived Experience: Anthropologies of Aging and the Life Course

Presenter(s)

• Veronica Sousa

  Doctoral Student
  Princeton University

Chair(s)

• Veronica Sousa

  Doctoral Student
  Princeton University

Presenter(s)

• Junbin Tan

  Doctoral Student
  Department of Anthropology, Princeton University

• Noa Vana

  PhD Candidate
  Tel Aviv University

• Jonathan Yahalom

  Psychologist
  Veterans Affairs

Presentations:

• 4:15 PM - 4:30 PM

  Constructing “demented bodies”: On the incongruity between subjectivity and agency
  Noa Vana – Tel Aviv University
• 4:30 PM - 4:45 PM

  Pragmatism and Idioms of Distress: Analyzing Alzheimer’s Disease in Oaxaca, Mexico
  Jonathan Yahalom – Veterans Affairs
• 4:45 PM - 5:00 PM

  The 'Person' in Dementia: Practicing Person-Centered Dementia Care Amidst Healthcare Consumerism
  Junbin Tan – Department of Anthropology, Princeton University
• 5:00 PM - 5:15 PM

  Aging Communally: Contemporary Care Among the Elderly in Lisbon
  Veronica Maria Sousa – Princeton University