Friday, November 1 / 1:45 PM - 3:30 PM Dockside 5

Session 108
Stratified Medicalization: Studies in Biomedicine and Inequality

Chair: Claire Decoteau, University of Illinois at Chicago

1. Racism as a Public Health CrisisClaire Decoteau, University of Illinois at Chicago; Cal Garrett, Wake Forest University; Tirza Ochrach-Konradi, University of Illinois at Chicago.

2. From Gender Expertise to Science Expertise: Geopolitics of Transnational Transgender HealthcareTara Gonsalves, Northwestern University.

3. “We Broke ‘em, We Fix ‘em”: The Establishment and Expansion of Veterans Treatment Courts in MinnesotaVictoria Piehowski, University at Buffalo.

4. Stratified Access to Disability Rights: Biomedical Privilege and Social TraumaJane Pryma, Boston University.

5. Biomedicalization of the “Normal”: The Brain, Antisocial Behavior, and Techno-inequalityOliver Rollins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

6. Stratified medicalization and disease Ontology: Prediabetes across race and classEmily Vasquez, Wesleyan University.

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