SSSP 2025 Annual Meeting

Date: Sunday, August 10

Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM

Session 085: Technology, Surveillance and Access to Health Services
Room: Indiana Room

Sponsors: Health, Health Policy, and Health Services
Social Problems Theory

Organizer: Yuying Shen, Norfolk State University

Presider &

Discussant: Derek Richardson, Indiana University Bloomington

Description: 

This session will explore the use - and developments of - technology in healthcare, surveillance of patients and medical providers, and access to services across healthcare services.

Papers:

“Commercial Sex Trafficking Dynamics in South Asia,” Natasha Israt Kabir, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

“Foreign Experts, Local Problems: Tracing the Transnational Movement and Application of Medical Expertise in Cambodian Nongovernmental Organizations,” Derek Richardson, Indiana University Bloomington

“Negotiating Silicocratic Biomedicalization: Healthcare, Market, and the Emergence of Biomedical-AI Dual Experts in South Korea,” June Jeon and Kwang Hyuck Jung, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology

“Self-care in Response to Care Scarcity and Systemic Marginalization: Challenging the Narrative in AMR Policy,” Agata Pacho, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

“Examining the Eco-gender Gap: Emotion and Gender in Environmental Concern Research,” Helen E. Wilds, University of Tennessee