In Event: Medical Sociology Section Roundtables

Medical Sociology Section / Medical Sociology Section Roundtables

Ben Wills, University of California, San Diego

Multivalent Medicalization: New Directions in the Dynamics of Medicalization - Ben Wills, University of California, San Diego

Idealized Bodies and Idealized Authority: U.S. birth centers, de-medicalization, and the reframing of pregnancy risk - Courtney Thornton, Washington University in St. Louis

From Essential Oils to Everyday Beliefs: Meso-Level Actors and the Diffusion of Health Ideologies - Nicole Cochran, Temple University

Feeling Meaning: Pain as Embodied Metaphor - Cesar Ramirez, University of Toronto

Jess M. Meyer, University of Kansas Medical Center

Patrice C. Wright, Howard University

Cindy L. Cain, The University of Alabama at Birmingham