SSSP 2024 Annual Meeting

Date: Sunday, August 11

Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM

THEMATIC

Session 111: The Social Organization of Medical Violence
Room: Joyce

Sponsors: Drinking and Drugs
Health, Health Policy, and Health Services
Institutional Ethnography
Sociology, Social Work, and Social Welfare

Organizers: Kathryn Nowotny, University of Miami
Colin Hastings, University of Waterloo

Presider: Kathryn Nowotny, University of Miami

Description: 

This session examines how medical systems, knowledges, technologies, and expertise reproduce broad forms of structural inequity and violence. Papers reflect on how people's everyday experiences are caught up in these systems and call attention to openings for intervening in health systems in ways that promote equity and social justice.

Papers:

“Carceral to Transformative: Abolitionist Social Work Strategies and Principles,” Craig Fortier, University of Waterloo

“Fractured Sueño Americano and State Violence: Immigration Processes, Labor and Power, and Drug and Alcohol Misuse among Recent Immigrants in Los Angeles,” Alice Cepeda, Nefertari Rincon Guerra and Avelardo Valdez, University of Southern California

“Healthwork at the Office: An Explication of Medical History Making,” Manda Ann Roddick, University of Victoria

“Producing a Licit Economy of Living Bodies: Symbolic Violence and Living Organ Donation,” Matthew J.P. Strang, York University

“Where Does My Blood and Information Go? Early Reflections on an Institutional Ethnographic Study of Sero Surveillance from Clinic to Public Health,” Colin Hastings, University of Waterloo