Social Study of Medicine Lecture Series (2011-2012)A lecture series that aims to engage the perspectives of medical sociology, social epidemiology, public health, medical humanities, psychology, Native studies, and medical anthropology, to address contemporary and historical themes in the study of health, healing and medicine. It seeks to provide a space for dialogue on therapeutic matters from multiple disciplinary orientations and from a range of non-Western and Western settings. The series is committed to engaged research that connects intellectual scholarship, community partnerships and advocacy. Lectures and discussions are aimed at 1) exploring relations between medicine, health and inequalities, and 2) considering how these pertain to the historical and contemporary delivery of health care in the Northern context. For more information on the series, contact Denielle Elliott (York University, Canada). | |
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March 23, 2012 BITTER MEDICINE: CASE STUDIES OF THE COMPLEXITIES ENCOUNTERED IN GLOBAL HEALTH Lecture by Dr. Judd Walson, University of Washington. Discussant: Dr. Rhonda M. Johnson, University of Alaska Anchorage Judd Walson is an assistant professor in Global Health at the University of Washington. In this talk, Dr. Walson will explore three case studies of global health challenges (malnutrition, HIV and tuberculosis). Using initial contact with the health care system as a starting point, Dr. Walson will explore community and social drivers of health that culminate in disease. He will discuss barriers and opportunities to addressing these challenges. |
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Love All Life: Graffiti in Downtown Vancouver.
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March 5, 2012, PERFORMING CONSENT: ETHICS AND EXPERIMENTAL ETHNOGRAPHY IN DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE VANCOUVER Lecture by: Dr. Dara Culhane, Simon Fraser University Discussant: Dr. Phyllis Fast, University of Alaska Anchorage Dr. Dara Culhane is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Simon Fraser University. Her work in performance/arts-based ethnography has traced new trajectories for experimental ethnography in community-based and pedagogical contexts, as well as collaborative storytelling. She has conducted research with the N'amgis First Nation, Alert Bay, British Columbia and with Aboriginal women in Vancouver's Downtown East Side. Se is author of An Error in Judgement (1987), The Pleasure of the Crown (1998), and In Plain Sight (2005), which was the winner of the 2006 George Ryga Award for Social Issues. Dr. Fast has a B.A. in English from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, an M.A. in English and Anthropology from the University of Alaska Anchorage, and a PhD in Anthropology from Harvard University. She has exhibited her art throughout the nation. Phyllis is the author of Northern Athabascan Survival: Women, Community and the Future (winner of the 2000 North American Indian Prose Award). In 2006 she received the Alaska Native Writer on the Environment award from the Alaska Conservation Foundation. |
Indian Health Service nurse and Navajo child, c. 1950s.
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November 28, 2011 THE PERSISTENCE OF HEALTH INEQUALITIES AND THE CHALLENGE OF GENETIC DETERMINISM Lecture by: Dr. David Jones, M.D., Ph.D., Harvard University Discussant: Dr. Thomas Hennessy, M.D., MPH, Arctic Investigations Program Dr. Jones is the A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine, Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard University. He completed his Ph.D. in History of Science at Harvard University and an M.D. at Harvard Medical School, receiving both in 2001. His early research focused on epidemics among American indigenous peoples, resulting in a book, Rationalizing Epidemics: Meanings and Uses of American Indian Mortality since 1600, and many articles. His current research explores the history of decision making in cardiac therapeutics. For more information on Dr. Jones, click here. Dr. Hennessy is the Director of the Arctic Investigations Program, which is the Center for Disease Control's (CDC) infectious disease field station in Anchorage, Alaska. He joined the U.S. Public Health Service in 1990 as a family physician on the Navajo Indian Reservation. He has been with CDC since 1994, and has lived in Alaska since 1998. He is a graduate of Antioch College, the Mayo Medical School, and the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. |
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