516 - Section on Medical Sociology Paper Session. Health, Biomedicine and Social Movements

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

This session solicits submissions about the place of health and biomedicine in contemporary and historical social movements. Following the theme of the 2016 meetings, “Rethinking Social Movements”, we are looking for submissions that theoretically and empirically explore a number of topics including- but not limited to- movements focused on specific issues in health and biomedicine, movements addressing health inequalities and the social distribution of health and illness, re-thinking the role of health in broader movements, and tensions around the de-politicization of health and biomedicine as the result of processes of medicalization. Papers utilizing qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methodologies are welcome.

Sub Unit

• Section on Medical Sociology / Health, Biomedicine and Social Movements

Session Organizers

• Natalie Boero, San Jose State University

• Julia A McReynolds-Pérez, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse

Individual Presentations

• Bodies of Resistance: The Migrant Health Justice Movement and Claims of Biocitizenship - Erin Hoekstra, University of Minnesota

• Diagnosing Wellness: Relations of Care in Feminist and Trans Health Politics and Practices - Christoph Hanssmann, UCSF

• Disease Campaigns and the Decline of Treatment Advocacy - Rachel Kahn Best, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

• Entanglements, Articulation, and the New Structure of Domestic Violence Survivorhood - Paige L. Sweet, University of Illinois, Chicago

• Health at Every Size (HAES™) as a Reform (Social) Movement within Public Health: A Situational Analysis - Natalie Ingraham, University of California at San Francisco