Oral Presentation Session

Reviewed by: AAA Executive Program Committee

(3-0195) Short-Term Global Health Travel: Good Intentions, Murky Ethics, and How Anthropology Matters

Of interest to: Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Students, Those Involved in Mentoring Activities

Organizer(s)

• Nicole Berry

  Associate Professor
  Simon Fraser University

• Noelle Sullivan

  Assistant Professor of Instruction
  Northwestern University

Chair(s)

• Noelle Sullivan

  Assistant Professor of Instruction
  Northwestern University

Presenter(s)

• Caitlin Baird

  University of Florida

• Nicole Berry

  Associate Professor
  Simon Fraser University

• Betsey BRADA

  Assistant Professor
  Reed College

• Noelle Sullivan

  Assistant Professor of Instruction
  Northwestern University

Discussant(s)

• Claire Wendland

  Professor
  University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Claire Wendland

  Professor
  University of Wisconsin-Madison

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM - 8:15 AM

  Commoditized global health travel: "Volunteer" entitlement and ambiguity among foreigners in Tanzania
• 8:15 AM - 8:30 AM

  Doctoring the Indigenous Poor in Guatemala: Misrecognition in Short-Term Medical Missions
• 8:30 AM - 8:45 AM

  Experiencing AIDS in Africa: Moral Aesthetics, Global Health Pedagogies, and the Limits of Transformation in Botswana
• 8:45 AM - 9:00 AM

  "Poor enough": short term medical missions and the performance of poverty in rural Guatemala
• 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM

  Discussion