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Medical Sociology Section Open Call Paper Session
Sat, August 8, 8:00 to 9:30am, TBASession Submission Type: Paper Session (90 minute)
Description
This panel highlights innovative research that showcases the vitality of medical sociology today. Across cases ranging from preventive health and mental illness outreach to carceral healthcare, medicalization in the Global South, and AI governance, the papers examine how the boundaries and authority of medicine are being contested and renegotiated.
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“I Want to Worry About It”: How health improvement turns people away from their doctors - Rachel Kahn Best, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
'I'm Not a Vet, but I Know a Dog When I See One': Sociology of Detection - Meghann Lucy, Montana State University
“Your Stethoscope, It Could be a Danger to You”: Criminal Stigma and the Clinical Encounter - GeorgePatrick Hutchins, Harvard University
Articulating and Negotiating Medicalization: Practitioner Perspectives on Female Genital Cutting in Narok County, Kenya - Jolien Inghels, University of Antwerp; Susan E. Bell; Samuel Thuo Kimani, University of Nairobi; Nina Van Eekert, Catholic University of Leuven; Sarah Van de Velde, University of Antwerp
Governance from Below: How To Regulate AI When Nobody’s Watching - Zachary Webster Griffen, New York University; Kellie Owens, New York University Grossman School of Medicine