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****************************************************** * http://www.anthropologymatters.com * * A postgraduate project comprising online journal, * * online discussions, teaching and research resources * * and international contacts directory. * ****************************************************** PLEASE FORWARD AS APPROPRIATE Call for Papers: Methodological and Ethical Complications of the Clinic as Fieldsite: Views from Critical Junctures in Medical Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies For a Panel at the 105th American Anthropological Association Meeting, San Jose, CA, November 15 - 19, 2006 Organizers: Thurka Sangaramoorthy and Lauren Fordyce While Medical Anthropology has long used the clinic as important site of investigation, recent scholarship in Science and Technology Studies (STS) have complicated and enriched the methodologies and ethics of clinical investigations. Often in anthropology, the demarcation of a field or fields materializes during the process of delineating suitable research questions and materials, and in turn, these fields actively frame their subjects and objects of inquiry. STS, however, often does not define its subjects and objects of inquiry because, in many ways, they come already circumscribed. For many anthropologists investigating how clinical practices produce and transmit their objects of inquiry or how new biomedical objects and technologies emerge, relationships of power between the field(s) and the researcher become highly problematical. This session will examine the critical issues that occur in conducting anthropological research in and around clinical settings. And in particular, the means and ways in which we, anthropologists who study biomedical sciences and technology, must navigate the multiple and layered fields that encompass their practices. Some of the questions to be explored by this panel include: * What are the negotiations between clinical Institutional Review Boards (IRB) and anthropologists in constructing and researching 'vulnerable subjects'? * Who are considered 'experts' in the anthropology and STS of the clinic and in what ways do the anthropological and/or STS researcher demonstrate expertise across different fields? * What are the methodological and ethical implications of clinical fieldwork in domestic versus international sites? * How does STS enhance the anthropology of and in clinical settings and how does anthropology contribute to STS research in these same settings? Please include any equipment you will need for your presentation. Paper abstract (250 words) due by email: 15 March 2006. Contact Information: Thurka Sangaramoorthy ([log in to unmask]), Joint Medical Anthropology Program, University of California- San Francisco and Berkeley Lauren Fordyce ([log in to unmask]), Department of Anthropology, University of Florida ------ H-MedAnthro: H-Net Network on Medical Anthropology To post messages to the list, send them to: [log in to unmask] Network page: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~medanthro/ Society for Medical Anthropology website: http://www.medanthro.net/ To manage your subscription, visit: http://www.h-net.org/lists/subscribe.cgi ************************************************************* * Anthropology-Matters Mailing List * * To join this list or to look at the archived previous * * messages visit: * * http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/Anthropology-Matters.HTML * * If you have ALREADY subscribed: to send a message to all * * those currently subscribed to the list,just send mail to: * * [log in to unmask] * * * * Enjoyed the mailing list? Why not join the new * * CONTACTS SECTION @ www.anthropologymatters.com * * an international directory of anthropology researchers * ***************************************************************