The 2007-2008 research cluster focused on the theme of "placing" global health, that is, considering global health issues in local context in order to better understand them and to implement just solutions. In particular, we highlighted the importance of situating responsibilities for and solutions to ill health in a manner sensitive to histories and power dynamics in particular settings, and in equitable consultation with local peoples.
The 2006-2007 research cluster focused activities on the theme of global health and invited three outside speakers to give public lectures and participate in classroom discussions and reading groups with faculty and graduate students. Audiences at each event were invited to attend receptions, a primary goal of which was to build community among scholars with shared interests at the University of Washington.
The 2005-2006 research cluster engaged scholarship emerging from perspectives that have pushed beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries in seeking to understand medicine in its many dimensions: as a socially authoritative form of knowledge about nature and the body; as a set of social practices; as a congeries of institutions; and as a site for the formation of subjectivities and for the exercise of governmentality. A faculty and graduate student reading group featured visits from three outside speakers, once each quarter.
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2007-2008
Inclusion and Difference: Gender, Race, and the New Biopolitics of Medical Research
Steven Epstein, PhD
Sociology
University California at San Diego
Whither Bioethics? From Feminist Bioethics to Public Ethics in an Era of Global Threats
Susan Sherwin, PhD
Philosophy and Gender and Women’s Studies, Dalhousie University
Not Dead Yet: The Disability Angle
Jerome Bickenbach, PhD
Philosophy
Queens University
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| 2006-2007
Pacific Crossings: The Imperial Logics and Transnational Formations of U.S. Public Health
May 14, 2007
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Warwick Anderson
Medical History & Bioethics
University of Wisconsin
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Offshored Clinical Trials: Pharmaceutical Evidence-Making and Hidden Harms
May 3, 2007
Global Outsourcing of Clinical Trials: Ethical Challenges
May 4, 2007 |
Adriana Petryna
Anthropology
University of Pennsylvania
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Cuba's Successful Revolution: Primary Health Care and Public Health
April 26, 2007 and April 27, 2007 |
Linda Whiteford
Anthropology
University of South Florida
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2005-2006
Rethinking ‘Choice’ -
Abortion and New Reproductive Technologies
April 6, 2006 |
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Adrienne Asch
Edward and Robin Milstein Professor of Bioethics
Wurzweiler School of Social Work
Yeshiva University, New York
Cockroaches, Housing, and Race:
A History of Asthma and Urban Ecology in America
March 3, 2006 |
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Gregg Mitman
Medical History and Bioethics
University of Wisconsin, Madison
White-washing Health Disparities: A Bioethical Dilemma from an African American Perspective
November 14, 2005 |
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Annette Dula
Center on Bioethics and Health Law
University of Pittsburgh
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2004-2005
American Medicine and the American Dream
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
Center for Bioethics
University of Minnesota
Professionalism in Practice: On the Non-Linear Character of Health Care
Annemarie Mol, PhD
Political Theory
Univeristy of Twente, The Netherlands
Genetic Citizens on the Biological Horizon
Rayna Rapp, PhD
Anthropology
New York University
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