Dear All,


We would like to invite you to submit a paper to our conference panel
*“**Movement
of medical knowledge and practice: crossing borders and constructing
boundaries in a global world”.*


The panel is part of the *CASCA & IUAES conference* themed "Mo(u)vement"
and is taking place in Ottawa from May 2-7, 2017. More information related
to the conference can be found: http://nomadit.co.uk/cascaiuaes2017/en/index


<http://nomadit.co.uk/cascaiuaes2017/en/index>

The idea behind our panel is to examine the movement of medical knowledge
and practice across geographical borders (e.g. from the Global South to the
Global North), or across socio-material boundaries (e.g. from lab to
clinic), and how standardization, adaptation and demarcation are produced
in these processes.


*Long Abstract*: Medical knowledge and practices frequently move across
geographical, socio-material and conceptual boundaries. This includes
protocols produced in the 'Global North' used in the 'Global South' or vice
versa (i.e. WHO guidelines); new medicines passing through distinct
material and regulatory sites (i.e. from labs to trials to markets); and
the uploading of personal health data to industry-owned online platforms
(i.e. PatientsLikeMe). Medical facts and artifacts traveling across borders
(or failing to do so) raise questions about the validity and universality
of knowledge and practices. What problems and blockages are encountered
during these medical movements? What innovative solutions are mobilized to
make medical knowledge and practices travel? How are they transformed in
the process? Specifically, we invite papers examining the strategies
employed to make knowledge valid in different times, places and contexts.
Claims to 'universal' knowledge may rely on particular social practices of
standardization (e.g. quantified metrics such as DALY), adaptation (e.g.
cultural 'translation' of diagnostic questionnaires), or other strategies.
Equally, we invite papers that discuss the construction of boundaries
involved in the circulation of medical knowledge, and the political ends
towards which this is accomplished. This includes demarcations between
local and universal knowledge or cultural and biological domains, and
distinct categories of people (e.g. knowledge producers and users; lays and
experts; underserved populations). By analyzing these dynamics, this panel
aims to contribute to current debates in medical anthropology and global
health that relate to the creation of new knowledge, interventions and
networks in a globalized but diverse and unequal world.


Please, do not hesitate to propose a paper to our panel by *19 December
2016* and feel free to contact us if you need any information:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/cascaiuaes2017/suite/panels.php5?PanelID=5331
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=wm%23inbox/15871b0c7a3321ee>


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General information about the call for papers:
http://nomadit.co.uk/cascaiuaes2017/en/call-for-papers


*CASCA/IUAES2017 Important dates *Call for Papers: 16 Nov-19 Dec
Call for Posters: 16 Nov-12 Jan
Early-bird registration opens: 9 Feb
End of early-bird: 9 Mar


CASCAIUAES2017: student travel grants
http://cas-sca.ca/conference/upcoming-conference/student-travel-grant


We are looking forward to hearing from you.

With our best wishes,

Loes & Hanna



Dr. Hanna Kienzler

Assistant Professor
Department of Global Health & Social Medicine
Room 2.7a East Wing
School of Global Affairs | Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
King’s College London
Strand | London WC2R 2LS

UK



Loes Knaapen
Assistant Professor | Professeure adjointe
School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies | École d’Études
Sociologiques et Anthropologiques
University of Ottawa | Université d’Ottawa
120 Université | 120 University (FSS10062)
Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5

Canada

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