SSSP 2024 Annual Meeting

Date: Saturday, August 10

Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM

Session 062: PAPERS IN THE ROUND: Bodily Autonomy and Health
Room: Ballroom West

Sponsor: Health, Health Policy, and Health Services

Organizer: Virginia Kuulei Berndt, McDaniel College

Description: 

Bodily autonomy in the realm of health and healthcare has inspired scholarly and activist work across a broad range of disciplinary and methodological approaches. As such, this interdisciplinary session includes intersectional research drawing from diverse methodological approaches including in-depth interviews, policy briefs, content analyses, and literature reviews. Topics in this section include abortion policy, technology and inequalities, eating disorder treatment and research, autonomy in long-term residential care, and prenatal care.

Roundtable #1 Title: Bodily Autonomy and Health

Presider: Yuying Shen, Norfolk State University

Papers:

“Bodily Autonomy and Abortion Policy in U.S. States,” Kelsey Johnson, Middle Tennessee State University

“Coercion in Care: Examining the Acceptability of the Use of Force in Long-term Residential Care,” MacGregor Goodman, University of Manitoba

“Not by Accident: The Technological Production of Embodied Health Inequalities,” Manning Zhang, Brandeis University

“Parallel Experiences of the Panopticon in the World of Eating Disorder Treatment and Research,” Heather C. Pizzanello, Salve Regina University

“Prenatal Care at SEPs,” Leticia Morales, Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work