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Medical Anthropology Colloquium

All seminars will be held at the Laurel Heights campus, room 474, Wednesdays from 3:30 pm to 5 pm, unless otherwise noted.

UPCOMING 2008-2009

  
March 11th, 2009 
Lisa Rofel, PhD, Department Chair, Professor of Anthropology, University of California Santa Cruz
The Traffic in Money Boys     

March 18th 2009
Scott Stonington, PhD Candidate, UCB/UCSF Joint Medical Program
Making karma out of modern death: Thailand and the anthropology of meta-ethics

April 22, 2009
NOTE DATE CHANGE
EJ Sobo,  PhD, Anthropology, San Diego State University 
Selling globally outsourced healthcare to US-based patient-consumers: The cultural appeal of common medical travel agency marketing techniques    

April 29th, 2009
NOTE DATE CHANGE
Nancy Burke, PhD, Assistant Professor, Cancer Center, Medical Anthropology, UCSF  

May 6th 2009
Laurel Heights 376
Ben Hickler, PhD Candidate, UCB/UCSF Joint Medical Program,
The 2006 Diana Forsythe Dissertation Award Winner in Social Studies of Science, Technology & Health
Politics of Animal Health - Biosecurity and Poverty Alleviation in the Lower Mekong

May 13th, 2009
Emily Martin, PhD, Institute of the History of Production of Knowledge
Sleepless in America

May 20th, 2009
NOTE DATE CHANGE
Galen Joseph, PhD, Assistant Professor, Cancer Center, Medical Anthropology, UCSF      
‘Ethnics’, Ethics and Equity: Increasing “Minority” Accrual to Cancer Clinical Trials

May 27th 2009
Betsy Pohlman, PhD Candidate, UCB/UCSF Joint Medical Program 
The Ethics and Politics of Caring and Curing: The Case of Alzheimer's Disease and Down Syndrome  


The UCSF/UCB Medical Anthropology program and History of Health Sciences series are made possible with support from Culpeper Lecture funding.

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