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WHAT CONSTITUTES MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE?: PART 2 OF A DISCUSSION OF AFFLICTION BY VEENA DAS
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Reviewed By: Society for Medical Anthropology
Thursday, December 4, 2014: 11:00 AM-12:45 PM

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This session would be of particular interest to:
Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Students, Those involved in mentoring activities
Organizers:  Clara Y Han (Johns Hopkins University)
Chairs:  Sameena Mulla (Marquette University)
Discussants:  Veena Das (Johns Hopkins University)
11:00 AM
A Career-Long Response to Veena Das's Work
Arthur M Kleinman (Harvard University)
11:15 AM
Listening with Veena to Ordinary Ethics (in Challenged Lives of Poverty, Illness, and Family Relations) in Three Often Conflicting Registers of (a) Advocacy, (b) Moral Engagement, and (c) Acknowledgement of Inherent Uncertainties
Michael M.J. Fischer (MIT)
11:30 AM
The Cultivated Cure: Affliction, Regeneration, Dislocation
Aditya Bharadwaj (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies)
11:45 AM
Writing-in-the-Gap:  Making Self-Immolation Death Ordinary in Tibet
Vincanne Adams (University of California, San Francisco)
12:00 PM
Beyond Medical Knowledge / Echoes of Suffering: Comments on Veena Das’ Vocabulary of Subjective Experience
Richard Rechtman (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)
12:15 PM
Discussant
Veena Das (Johns Hopkins University)
12:30 PM
Discussion
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