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“Global Health in the Time of Violence, Part I” Session TH-123 from the 2007 SfAA Meeting

Posted by jencardew on January 15, 2008

(This podcast was originally posted in April 2007 and is being re-published with the permission of the speakers.)

This is part 1 of 2 from the “Global Health in the Time of Violence” sessions, part 2 can be found here.

All of the participants on both part I and part II of these panels are currently working with the School for Advanced Research (SAR) on an edited volume based on the presentations.

I would like to thank all of the panelists for their participation and support. I would like to thank Dr. Rylko-Bauer for her help with collecting the information for the blog posts!

Dr. Barbara Rylko-Bauer, Dr. Paul Farmer and Dr. Linda Whiteford organized the panels. Dr. Linda Whiteford introduces each speaker. The participants (listed in the order of their presentations) are:

Barbara Rylko-Bauer (Michigan State University)

Recent publications:

Guest editor, Bringing the Past into the Present: Family Narratives of Holocaust, Exile, and Diaspora. In Anthropological Quarterly 78(1), 2005

Reclaiming Applied Anthropology: Its Past, Present, and Future (co-authored with Merrill Singer and John van Willigen). American Anthropologist 108(1): 178-190, 2006

Paul Farmer (Harvard University and Partners in Health)

Recent publications:

Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor. University of California Press, 2003.

Never Again? Reflections on Human Values and Human Rights. In The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, vol. 26. Grethe B. Peterson, ed. Pp. 137-188. University of Utah Press, 2006.

Linda Whiteford (University of South Florida)

Recent publications:

Globalization, Water, and Health: Resource Management in Times of Scarcity, (co-edited with Scott Whiteford). School of American Research Press, 2005.

Primary Health Care in Cuba: The Other Revolution (co-authored with Laurence G. Branch). Rowman & Littlefield Publishing, 2008.

Didier Fassin (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)

Recent publications:

Compassion and Repression: The Moral Economy of Immigration Policies in France. Cultural Anthropology 20(3):362-87, 2005.

When Bodies Remember: Experiences and Politics of AIDS in South Africa. University of California Press, 2007.

Carolyn Nordstrom (University of Notre Dame)

Recent publications:

Shadows of War: Violence, Power, and International Profiteering in the Twenty-First Century. University of California Press, 2004.

Global Outlaws: Crime, Money, and Power in the Contemporary World. University of California Press, 2007.

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