(This podcast was originally posted in April 2007 and is being re-published with the permission of the speakers.)
This is part 2 of 2 from the “Global Health in the Time of Violence” sessions, part 1 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.
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:
Philippe Bourgois (University of Pennsylvania–School of Arts and Sciences & School of Medicine)
Recent publications:
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio, 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology (co-edited with Nancy Scheper-Hughes). Blackwell Publishing, 2004.
Merrill Singer (Hispanic Health Council)
Recent publications:
Something Dangerous: Emergent and Changing Illicit Drug Use and Community Health. Waveland Press, 2005.
The Face of Social Suffering: A Life History of a Street Drug Addict. Waveland Press, 2006.
Drugging the Poor: Legal and Illegal Drugs and Social Inequality. Waveland Press, 2008
James Quesada (San Francisco State University)
Recent publications:
Suffering Child: An Embodiment of War and Its Aftermath in Post-Sandinista Nicaragua. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 12(1):15-73, 1998.
Social Misery and the Sanctions of Substance Abuse: Confronting HIV Risk Among Homeless Heroin Addicts in San Francisco (co-authored with Philippe Bourgois and Mark Lettiere). In Drugs, Alcohol, and Social Problems, James Orcutt and David Rudy, eds. Rowman and Littlefield, 2003.
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Session took place in Tampa, FL at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2007.
