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> Subject: Call for Papers, AAA 2008
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> Organisers: Haripriya Narasimhan ([log in to unmask]) and
> Caroline Wilson ([log in to unmask])
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> Call for Papers:
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> Panel title: Gender, Medical Technologies and Body Politics in
> South Asia
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> It is increasingly being recognized that the global medical
> technology industries are shaping the kinds of health care
> available in local settings. In South Asia, the medical
> technologies and pharmaceutical industries have grown significantly
> even within the last five years, but little recent research has
> been published on the ways in which these technologies have become
> meaningful within the everyday lives of consumers (see Lock and
> Kaufert 1998 for a notable exception). Although some important work
> has been done with regard to maternal health (Van Hollen, Unnithan)
> medical technologies are an important transformative force that is
> radically changing understandings of the body, gender and kinship
> relationships for men and women at all life stages. This panel
> investigates the ways in which these globalized technologies, such
> as ayurvedic and unani pharmaceuticals, hormonal pills, and
> diagnostic tests, are appropriated in local contexts. Although
> these medical paraphernalia are associated with greater consumer
> "choice" in health care, the papers examine the type of choices
> that are being opened up by these technologies and the ways in
> medical technologies increasingly mediate gendered relationships.
> The papers should add to knowledge of the following themes: how
> does the increased availability of medical paraphernalia provide
> choice to men and women in the south Asian context and what kinds
> of choices are being opened up? How are these technologies
> marketed? How are they appropriated by men and women in the context
> of the everyday? In what ways do they augment bodily desires and
> opportunities whilst also increasing the possibilities for greater
> bodily surveillance and governmentality? How are technologies
> transforming ideas of wellness and illness within the household
> setting?
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>
> Please send your abstracts to the organisers by March 28..
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> Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic
> communications disclaimer: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/
> secretariat/legal/disclaimer.htm
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