Session 2 - Conceptualizing differences and inequalities

"Cultural Competency" Obscure Inequalities in Health?  Views from Medical Anthropology.
Peter Brown, antpjb@emory.edu Emory University - Abstract DOC PDF

Culture, Behavior, and Health Disparities: Implications for Research, Policy, and Intervention.
Hector Betancourt, hbetancourt@psych.llu.edu and Patricia Flynn, pflynn@psych.llu.edu Loma Linda University, - Abstract DOC PDF

Inequalities from the Disease's point of view: Chronic Disease and Autoimmunity.
Ohad Parnes, o.parnes@ucl.ac.uk Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College, London- Abstract DOC PDF

The Medical Construction of Race.
Matthew Anderson, andersonma@aol.com Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Abstract DOC PDF

Session 3 - Disparities and race

Patient Safety and Prescription Medication Error: Differences in Patient Attitudes and Actions.
Gail Hughes, gdhughes@prevmed.umsmed.edu and Chris Arthur, carthur@familymed.umsmed.edu University of Mississippi Medical Center - Abstract DOC PDF

Virgin Soils Revisited
David Jones, dsjones@MIT.EDU Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Abstract DOC PDF

Concepts of Race/Ethnicity in Maternal Health Care: Implications for Diminishing Racial Health Inequalities in Brazil.
Molly Robertson, Molly_Robertson@brown.edu Brown University - Abstract DOC PDF

Session 4 - The health of immigrants

Distinctiveness, Difference and Disease: Medical Responses to Post-Colonial Immigration.
Roberta Bivins, robertabivins@yahoo.co.uk Lecturer in the History of Medicine, Cardiff University - Abstract DOC PDF

Reflections on Disparities in the Utilization of Medical Specialists Between Immigrants and Non-Immigrants in Canada.
Alice Chen achen@chspr.ubc.ca and Arminée Kazanjian, a.kazanjian@ubc.ca University of British Columbia - Abstract DOC PDF

"Illegal" Migration Status as Axis of Health Inequality.
Sarah S. Willen, swillen@emory.edu Emory University - Abstract DOC PDF

Session 5 - Keynote address

The embodiment of health inequalities: the case of rapidly expanding access to antiretrovirals in West Africa
Vinh-Kim Nguyen, McGill University

Session 6 - Genomics and concepts of racial difference

Making Sense of Race.
Howard Brody, Howard.Brody@ht.msu.edu Michigan State University.

What the HapMap Can Teach Us about the Challenges of Dissecting Genetic Variation and Race/Ethnicity/Geographic Ancestry .
Ellen Wright Clayton, ellen.clayton@vanderbilt.edu Vanderbilt University.

Pharmacogenetics and Implications for Understanding Race, Justice and Health Disparities.
Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, sandra.lee@stanford.edu Stanford University - Abstracts DOC PDF

The Molecular Politics of HIV: Tracking Difference and Inequality across Genomes and Continents.
Johanna Crane, jcrane@itsa.ucsf.edu University of California, San Francisco - Abstracts DOC PDF

Session 7 - Cross-cultural encounters and mediations
Chair: Elizabeth Heitman, Vanderbilt University

Does Culture Matter?  Experiences of Health Care and Telehealth in the Far North. 
Lorna Heaton, lorna.heaton@umontreal.ca University of Montreal - Abstract DOC PDF

The Place of Islam and Social Inequality in Egypts Organ Transplant Debate.
Sherine Hamdy, sherine@nyu.edu New York University - Abstracts DOC PDF

Nursing Differences: Negotiating Traditional Medicine in a Tanzanian Hospital.
Stacey Langwick, langwick@anthro.ufl.edu University of Florida - Abstract DOC PDF

Session 8 - Perceptions of risk

Unorthodoxy Governed: Using the Technique of Risk in Regulating Latino/a Defined Behavior in Public Health.
Karen Holliday, holliday@ucla.edu University of California, Los Angeles - Abstract DOC PDF

Medication Consumption and Sociocultural Analysis of Risk Among Hypertensives: Redefining Social and Health-Related Disparities. 
Michelle Proulx, proulxmich@hotmail.com Université de Montréal - Abstract DOC PDF

Session 9 - The socialist model at home and abroad

Inequality and Health in Contemporary Cuba.
Katherine Hirschfeld, mkcrabb@ou.edu University  of Oklahoma - Abstract DOC PDF

An Alternative to Capitalist Health Regime?  Socialist Hygienic Modernity and the Third World during the Cold War.
Young-sun Hong, Yhong@notes.cc.sunysb.edu State University of New York,  Stony Brook - Abstract DOC PDF

Session 10 - Mental health, race, and disparities

From "Spiritual Crisis" to "Mental Illness" Racial Disparities in Mental Health Care, Historically.
Kirby Randolph., kirbyr@mail.med.upenn.edu University of Pennsylvania - Abstract DOC PDF

African Americans and Psychiatry in the U.S. During the 1950s.
Ellen Dwyer, dwyer@indiana.edu Indiana University - Abstract DOC PDF

Marital Status, Socioeconomic Status, Cultural Variations and Mental Health Status Among Latinos.
Mercedes Rubio, chelisrubio@yahoo.com American Sociological Association - Abstract DOC PDF

The Medical Use of Racial Difference: The Case of Jewish Nervousness.
Christopher Crenner, ccrenner@kumc.edu University of Kansas - Abstract DOC PDF