The pre-circulated paper deadline for the event is March 15, 2010. Please email your papers to mmika [at] sas [dot] upenn [dot] edu. Papers will be available for downloading at this website shortly thereafter.
We often think of illness as something that happens to a person or within a person. Yet illness (and health) can also be productively understood as something that happens between people. This insight lies at the heart of a remarkably creative field of study – that of social health and healing, which Steven Feierman was instrumental in establishing.
For the papers to be discussed at the conference. More papers are coming. Please be advised that we expect a lively, serious debate about these papers, and expect that you will read them in advance of the conference.
Please contact Marissa Mika at mmika@sas.upenn.edu for the password.
Conference Logistics
The Social Health Conference will take place on Friday, April 23 and Saturday, April 24 2010 at Claudia Cohen Hall on the University of Pennsylvania's campus.
Friday: 3:00-5:00pm on the ground floor in G17 with a Dinner Reception to follow in the Terrace Room (please RSVP if attending)
Saturday: 9:00am-6:30 pm in 402 Cohen, with coffee and continental breakfast and lunch on the third floor lounge (please RSVP if attending)
Claudia CohenHall is on 36th Street (a pedestrian street) between Spruce St. and Walnut St.
For an interactive map of Penn’s campus and a photo of CohenHall, see the following:
Please email Marissa Mika at mmika@sas.upenn.edu to RSVP or if you have questions. An RSVP is required to attend this event.
Conference Funders and Organizers
We would like to thank the following organizations for their generous support:
School of Arts and Sciences/Mellon Cross-Cultural Fund University Research Foundation Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars Program The Program in Ethnohistory at the University of Pennsylvania The Program on Medicine and Society in Africa The Department of the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania The Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania
Social Health is organized by: Robert Aronowitz Nancy Hunt M. Susan Lindee Julie Livingston David Schoenbrun Marissa Mika