Dear colleagues,
**Apologies for cross-posting**
Please find below a CFP for the panel P077 Biomedical technologies and
health practices in the Middle East and North Africa, that Irene Maffi
(University of Lausanne), Claire Beaudevin (CNRS-Cermes3 / French National
Centre for Scientific Research) and I are organising at EASA 2016.
Feel free to share with your networks and circulate widely.
Many thanks.
Best,
Irene Capelli
PhD University of Torino
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EASA Biennial Conference"Anthropological legacies and human futures"
20-23 July 2016, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Panel P077 | Biomedical technologies and health practices in the Middle
East and North Africa
Short Abstract
Biomedicine, biomedical technologies and health are poorly covered research
areas in the anthropology of the MENA region. We invite papers focusing on
biomedical technologies and the multiple social arrangements and practices
they generate, both among patients and health care professionals.
http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4181
Long Abstract
Biomedicine, biomedical technologies and health in general are poorly
covered research areas in the anthropology of the Middle-East and North
Africa (MENA) region. While a corpus of literature broaches reproductive
and contraceptive technologies, important topics developed in other regions
are still to be more widely explored, such as drugs, medical imaging,
clinical trials, genetic testing, blood tests / banks / donation, or organ
transplantations. In this panel, we invite researchers working in one or
several MENA countries to discuss uses of and interactions around
biomedical technologies, considering both patients' and health
professionals' practices. As the local shapes, meanings, and impacts of
biomedical technologies depend on the social, political and economic
contexts as well as on the community of practice, variations in their
interpretations and uses may reveal their inherent plasticity. This
malleability shall be considered in relation with actors' specific
identities such as social class, ethnicity, religion, gender and sexual
identities, age, marital status, handicap. Therefore, practices related to
biomedical technologies can foster agency or conversely reinforce
domination, inequalities or oppression. Moreover, biomedical technologies
are caught up in local and global logics that transcend their specific
medical application, turning them into instruments that can be used to
domesticate bodies, shape specific forms of subjectivity, build political
agendas, etc.
What are the similarities, convergences or discrepancies in the uses of
biomedical technologies throughout the MENA region? What kind of specific
social arrangements do they imply / legitimate / enable? How do these
arrangements impact existing power structures and cultural meanings?
Convenors
Irene Capelli (University of Torino)
Irene Maffi (University of Lausanne)
Claire Beaudevin (CNRS-Cermes3 (French National Centre for Scientific
Research))
Discussants tbd
Deadline: 15th of February 2016
To propose a paper, please follow this link
http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2016/paperproposal.php5?PanelID=4181 and
submit through the online system on the web site. For any inquiries, do not
hesitate to email the panel convenors.
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