Datum
26. März – 30. März 2024
In-person roundtable at SFAA 84th Annual Meeting, March 26–30, 2024, El Dorado Hotel & Spa, Santa Fe
Conference „Deep Cuts: Towards an Anthropology of Surgery”
Chair: Vania Smith Allen
Deadline: 05.10.2023
We would like to invite submissions to our in-person roundtable, Deep Cuts: Towards an Anthropology of Surgery, at the Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting. For this roundtable, we aim to explore what anthropology can teach us about topics such as surgical processes, variability, and outcomes, as well as what these topics can in turn teach us about broader social issues.
We invite contributions to think about and relate to questions such as the following:
- How does surgical variation across regions impact patient outcomes and experiences, and why does it occur?
– How does resource scarcity impact surgical processes or outcomes?
– How do patient or physician ideas about aesthetics impact surgical processes, outcomes, and physician/patient decision-making?
– How do patients feel about their own surgeries? What role do scars play in patient recovery and outcomes?
– How do patient categories of race, gender, class, and sexual identity impact surgical decisions, processes, or outcomes?
– How might we theorize incisions, scars, and other impacts of surgery on the body?
– What values get placed on specific surgeries and where do such values come from? (for example, plastic surgery, surgical abortion, cesarean section, organ donation, etc.)
– How can anthropology bring attention to important issues related to surgery in the US and globally?
– How does surgical training address any of the above issues?
– How do these ideas have applied implications for medical care and practice?
As this is a roundtable, we plan to present works in progress in brief, 5‑minute presentations, followed by a structured discussion. The goals of the roundtable are to share preliminary findings and ideas, uncover connections and synergies in our work, and establish new questions and directions for the anthropology of surgery.
Please send a 100 word abstract/summary of your proposed topic for this roundtable (and/or any questions) to: Lydia Dixon (lydia.dixon@csuci.edu) or Vania Smith-Oka (vsmithok@nd.edu) by October 5th.
Important dates:
Send abstract (100 words) to the co-organizers: October 5, 2023
Notification of acceptance by the co-organizers: October 10, 2023
Last date for registration for the SfAA meeting: October 15, 2023