Description:

The faculty conveners of the Global Medical Cultures and Law Research Group have joined forces to examine three phenomena over the long 20th century: the globalization of biomedicine, the codification of traditional medicine, and the constitutive role of the law in these processes.

SPECIAL EVENT presented by the Global Medical Cultures and Law Research Group at the Buffett Institute

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Program Details

Sunday, May 7 | 8:45AM – 12:30PM
1881 Sheridan Road . Harris Hall 108 . Evanston Campus

9:15 – 11:00AM | PANEL 5

"Enabling Restrictions: Law, Medicine, and Female Sterilization in Costa Rica"

MARÍA CARRANZA
INCIENSA, University of Costa Rica
&
STEVEN PALMER
History, University of Windsor

SIRI SUH 
Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota
"Globalizing Reproductive Health in Senegal: The Troubled Medicalization of Abortion in an Illegal Landscape"

CHAIR NOELLE SULLIVAN
Anthropology, Northwestern University

11:30AM – 12:30PM | WRAP-UP + BRUNCH (provided with rsvp)

New Research and Publishing Opportunities

Funded by the Buffett Institute for Global Studies in support of its Global Medical Cultures and Law Research Group

with co-sponsorship from
The Science in Human Culture Program
The 2016-2017 Klopsteg Seminar Series in Science in Human Culture

image credit: The Citadel of Drugs, Franco Assetto, 1955