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Please could you circulate the following Call for Papers to the Anthopology Matters Mailing List
Many thanks
Fiona Larkan
EASA 2010
ANTHROPOLOGY AND PHARMACEUTICALS - MEDICATING CRISIS - WO91
The biennial meeting of EASA will be held at NUI Maynooth, Ireland from 24th to 27th August. Abstracts of 150 words are due before 1st March 2010.
The story of pharmaceuticals is one of continuing cycles of imagination and crises. This panel seeks to engage with the social lives of pharmaceuticals, their symbolic logics, materiality and their impact on the world.
In keeping with the theme of EASA2010 'Crisis and Imagination' the 'Medicating Crisis panel (Ref. WO91) would welcome abroad range of papers related - but not limited - to the following topics:
- The culture of the pharmacopeia and pharmaceutical regulation; Can creative, imaginative or crisis practices become broadly legitimized, codified and regulated?
- The political economy of pharmaceuticals - their production, marketing, distribution, prescription and consumption; and their relationships with law, custom and government;
- Patent regimes and attempts to change them;
- Pharmaceuticals in plural health systems where allopathic, traditional and self-medicating systems intersect. - The imaginative use of pharmaceuticals for recreational purposes, or for inclusion in 'traditional' remedies;
- The symbolic logics of pharmaceuticals beyond the simple calculus of scarcity;
- Ethnographies and explorations of how health care professionals and patients make sense of rapidly changing medical and scientific guidelines.
- Affordability and access to pharmaceuticals – alongside controversies about the overuse of medication in western societies is a parallel story of incomplete or partial treatment, unaffordable or unacceptable treatments, and news of funding cuts to those countries where pharmaceuticals are most needed for HIV, TB and malaria; the imaginative appropriation of medication in such circumstances.
- Forms of emerging pharmaceutical citizenship.
To submit an abstract (of no more than 150 words) before 1st March 2010 please click on the link below and go to the Medicating Crisis Panel – reference WO91 http://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2010/callforpapers.htm
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