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Researchers’ Presentations

Introduction:

Friday, August 5th, 2022

 

09h30: welcome and introduction

 

09h40: Hanganu-Bresch Cristina, St. Joseph’s University, United States, Associate Professor, Science and technology studies

  • Food biopolitics: healthism and orthorexia

 

10h00: Staunton Ciara, Middlesex University, United Kingdom, Senior Lecturer in Law, Law

  • The Regulation of embryonic stem cell research in Ireland: Developments since the Commission on Assisted Human Reproduction

 

10h20: Saylor Katherine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States, PhD Student, 

            Bioethics – Medical Ethics

 

  • Beyond maximizing health outcomes: Incorporating fairness into priority setting for genetic screening

 

10h40: Kennedy Susan, Boston University, United States, PhD Candidate, Philosophy

  • From Procreation to Parenthood – Simply a Matter of Convention?

 

11h00-11h15 – Coffee break

 

11h20: Kandhari Rohini, New-Delhi, India, Independent Researcher, Anthropology

 

  • Bio-Consumption: Stem Cell Treatments in India and the Making of A New Experimental Subject Population

 

11h40: Hendlin Yogi, Erasmus University Rotterdam/UCSF, The Netherlands, Assistant Professor, 

            Research Associate, Political Science

 

  • Industrial Epidemics: Chronic Disease and the Corporate Determinants of Health

 

12h00: Comfort Nathaniel, Johns Hopkins University, United States, Professor of History of 

            Medicine, History of Medicine

  • The Nature and Nurture of James D. Watson

 

12h30-13h30 – Group picture & buffet lunch served by Brocher Foundation 

 

13h30: Branagan Lesley, currently unaffiliated (finished PhD in 2019), Australia, Dr., Anthropology

  • Mental health in south India: The ‘medicine and prayer’ healing model

 

13h50: Bisaillon Laura, University of Toronto, Canada, Dr. Professor, Sociology

  • Medications, Mobilities and Memories: Ethnographic Inquiries at the Medico-Legal Borderlands

 

14h10: Akintola Simisola, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, Professor of Law and Bioethics, Bioethics – 

            Medical ethics

 

  • An Indegenous legal approach to regulating data sharing in Genomic and Biobank research in resource limited settings: perspectives from Nigeria 

 

14h30 – end of presentations

 

 

 

 

 


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