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Guide to Health at the ASA Conference

January 1, 2000

HIV/AIDS

11/17, 3:00-5:00

AIDS: State Power and International Politics

11/18, 8:30-10:30

Roundtable: Africa's Dual Brain Drain: Migration & HIV/AIDS

States, NGOs, and Health Provision: HIV/AIDS and Malaria in Africa

11/18, 10:45-12:45

AIDS: Policies and Politics

Roundtable: ARVs and African Economies: Externalities from Treatment for HIV/AIDS

11/18, 1:00-3:00

Models, Strategies, and Perspectives in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS

11/18, 3:15-5:15

Roundtable: The Political Economy of AIDS Treatment in Africa: Transnational Policies, Drug Distribution, and National Contexts

11/20, 11:15-1:15

State HIV/AIDS Policies and Their Effects on Citizens

Health Economics

11/17, 12:45-2:45

Economic Change: Implications for Health and Disease

11/17, 3:00-5:00

Globalization, Export Commodities, and Health

11/18, 8:30-10:30

Biotechnology and Agricultural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Promises, Propaganda, Politics?

11/18, 3:15-5:15

Socio-Economic Context and the Risk of Disease

11/20, 9:00-11:00

Livelihood Strategies and Urban Economies: Health, Schooling, and Employment

Healthcare

11/17, 3:00-5:00

Impediments to Health and Health Services in Africa

11/18, 8:30-10:30

Politics, Disease, and Public Health: The Case of the Oromo in Ethiopia

11/19, 9:00-11:00

Unhealthy States, Unhealthy Bodies, and Possibilities of Healing

Emerging Health Issues in Independent Ghana

11/19, 11:15-1:15

Healthcare and Prevention on the Continent

Expertise, Autochtony, and Control Over Medical Knowledge

11/19, 3:00-5:00

The Politics of Health and Knowledge: Responses to Women's Needs in Health and Humanitarian Crises

11/20, 9:00-11:00

Roundtable: Projects, Products, and Services: A Look at Africa Health Policies in Practice

11/20, 11:15-1:15

Health Care in South Africa: Experiment and Experience

Health and History

11/17, 12:45-2:45

Colonial and Post-Colonial Strategies of Disease Control

11/17, 3:00-5:00

New Histories of Colonial Medicine

Colonial Medicine and Health in Africa

11/18, 1:00-3:00

Diseases, Indigenous Systems of Medicine, and Healthcare Among the Igbo of Southeastern Nigeria

11/18, 1:00-3:00

Alternative Approaches to African Historiography: Between Representations, Epistemology, and the Human Genome

11/19, 9:00-11:00

Health and the Colonial Agency

Health and Culture

11/18, 8:30-10:30

Healing through the Visual and Textual in African Arts

Language, Music, and Disease

11/18, 10:45-12:45

Dangerous Outsiders: Women, Minorities, and Youth, and the Health of the Botswana Body/Politic

11/18, 1:00-3:00

The African Body: Health and Beauty

Wellness: Narratives of Representation

Healthy Environments: Histories and Challenges

Disease/Trauma and Literature

11/18, 3:15-5:15

Health, Ethics, and Panic

Managing Reproductive Events through the Life Course

The Body/Politic and Biomedical Frameworks: Infectious Diseases, Vulnerabilities, and Experimental Interventions

11/19, 9:00-11:00

Roundtable: Democracy, Human Rights, and the Health of the African Body/Politic

Perspectives on Pentecostal Healing

11/19, 11:15-1:15

Health, Education, and Development

11/19, 3:00-5:00

Defining Human Rights and the Moral Basis of Citizenship and Health

11/20, 9:00-11:00

Gender Relations, Healthcare, and Education

Ethnographic Turns and Cognitive Dissonance: Exploring Science, Magic, Healing, and Race

11/20, 11:15-1:15

Rethinking the Medical: Affliction, Tradition, Pluralism

Is Settling Good for Pastoralists? Health, Economic, and Political Consequences in Northern Kenya

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