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HEALTHCARE DECISION-MAKING AT THE BORDERS: NEGOTIATING KNOWLEDGE, ALTERNATIVES, AND EMOTION IN TIMES OF PERSONAL CRISIS
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Reviewed By: Society for Medical Anthropology
Wednesday, November 14, 2012: 2:00 PM-5:45 PM

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Practicing and Applied Anthropologists
Organizers:  Michael D Adair-Kriz (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Chairs:  Amy B. Nichols-Belo (Mercer University and Randolph-Macon College) and Gerard P Alolod (Columbia University, Teachers College)
Discussants:  Helen S Chapple (Creighton University) and Mary K Anglin (University of Kentucky)
2:00 PM
Reproductive Decision-Making On the Borders of Health and Illness: Infertility and Cancer In Puerto Rico
Karen E Dyer (University of South Florida)
2:15 PM
Utilizing Lay Health Educators to Navigate Healthcare Decision Making At the Borders of Hmong and Western Conceptions of Cancer
Shannon Sparks (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
2:30 PM
A Ritual Investigation of Sudden Death Events In An Urban United States Emergency Department Context
Mary E Mitsch (Madonna University)
2:45 PM
“Passing Through Nature to Eternity”:  Intimate (Dis)Beliefs Regarding Life After Death In Organ Donation Decision-Making
Michael D Adair-Kriz (Virginia Commonwealth University)
3:00 PM
Brokering Bodies: Healthcare Providers and the Moral Economies of Organ Donation
Gerard P Alolod (Columbia University, Teachers College)
3:15 PM
Redefining Diagnoses: Chronic Illness, Holistic Providers and Integrative Medicine In Toronto, Ontario and Portland, Oregon
Suzanne E Morrissey (Whitman College)
3:30 PM
Discussant
Helen S Chapple (Creighton University)
3:45 PM
Break
4:00 PM
Tactical Repertoires As An Alternative to Medical Pluralism: Responding to Witchcraft Illness In Mwanza, Tanzania and During Medical Uncertainty In the US
Amy B. Nichols-Belo (Mercer University and Randolph-Macon College)
4:15 PM
“If You don’t Cut It, You May Lose the child”: Cough, Medical Pluralism and Uvulectomy In Tanzania
Siri Lange (Chr. Michelsen Institute and Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI))
4:30 PM
The Bounds of Belief In Belize: Health, Belief and Biomedicine In Rural Communities
Douglas C Reeser (University of South Florida and University of South Florida)
4:45 PM
Accessing Mexican Medical Care: The Dilemma of Difference
Matt David Dalstrom (Rockford College and Rockford College)
5:00 PM
Negotiating Care At the Borders of Psychiatry: “Experts,” Families, and Users of Mental Health Services In a Public Psychiatric Hospital In Yucatan, Mexico
Beatriz M Reyes-Foster (University of Central Florida)
5:15 PM
Sharing Borders: Health Care Decision Making In a Dutch Nursing Home
Jolanda Lindenberg (Leiden University and Leyden Academy on Vitality and Ageing)
5:30 PM
Discussant
Mary K Anglin (University of Kentucky)
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