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Schedule of the 2007 Advanced Study Institute

Thursday June 14th, 2007


8h30-9h Registration
9h-9h30 Welcome & Introduction:
From Amrita to Substance D: Politics, practice and experience in the social life of psychiatric medication

Laurence J. Kirmayer, ¿´Æ¬ÊÓƵ University

The History and Political Economy of Psychopharmacology and Psychiatric Science
9h30-10h Methods and madness: Severe mental illness in the age of psychopharmacology

Joel Braslow , University of California at Los Angeles

10h-10h30 Psychopharmacology in the age of anxiety: The Miltown revolution in historical context

Andrea Tone , ¿´Æ¬ÊÓƵ University

10h30-11h Break
11h-11h30 Gender stereotypes in the diagnosis of depression: Systematic content analysis of medical records

Jonathan Metzl , University of Michigan

11h30-12h Cargo cult science: On the interaction between evidence, medicine and commerce

David Healy , Cardiff University

12h-12h30 Panel Discussion

Laurence J. Kirmayer (chair), Joel Braslow, David Healy, Jonathan Metzl & Andrea Tone

12h30 –14h Lunch
From Politics to Practice
14h-14h30 Partial truths and competing paradigms: Stakes in the administration of drug compliance in the treatment of ADHD

Kalman Applbaum , University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee

14h30-15h Pills that swallow policy: India's National Mental Health Program

Sumeet Jain & Sushrut Jadhav , University College London

15h-15h30 Ways of distributing pills in India: The case of fluoxetine (Prozac)

Stefan Ecks , University of Edinburgh

15h30-16h Break
16h-16h30 Psychotropic medication use with children and adolescents: A comparative study

Vivianne Kovess , ¿´Æ¬ÊÓƵ University/Fondation MGEN

16h30-17h Edgy ethics and storied science: Marketing neuroscience as the truth of depression

Nathan Greenslit , Massachusetts Institute of Technology

17h-17h45 Panel Discussion

Sushrut Jadhav (chair), Kalman Applbaum, Stefan Ecks, Sumeet Jain, & Vivianne Kovess

17h45-18h Launch of the Transcultural Psychiatry Festschrift for Raymond Prince
18h-19h
Reception and Poster Session
19h-21h
Hoffman's Potion (film)

Panel Discussion

Friday, June 15th, 2007


Popular and Professional Knowledge and the Uses of Medication
9h-9h15 Introduction

Cécile Rousseau , ¿´Æ¬ÊÓƵ University

9h15-9h45 Ethnic medication: Towards a new scientific racism?

Sylvaine De Plaen , Hôpital Sacre-Coeur

9h45-10h15 Therapeutic reasoning and the rationales underlying day-to-day psychotropic prescribing practices: Back to 19th century therapeutic relativism?

Johanne Collin , Université de Montréal

10h15-10h45 Tense prescriptions: Doctor's knowledge and doubts regarding Alzheimer medications in Brazil

Annette Liebing , Université de Montréal

10h45-11h15 Break
11h15-11h45 Scripting control: Aboriginal and mainstream Canadian understandings of "phamily life"

Michael Oldani , University of Wisconsin at Whitewater

11h45-12h15 Panel Discussion

Cécile Rousseau (chair), Johanne Collin, Sylvaine De Plaen, Annette Liebing & Michael Oldani

12h15-14h Lunch
Phenomenological Pharmacology
14h-14h30 Uncertainty in an era of evidence-based practices: The ambiguous texture of medicines on a transcultural clinical scene

Ellen Corin, Cécile Rousseau & Annie Gauthier , ¿´Æ¬ÊÓƵ University

14h30-15h Psychological ramifications of psychiatric medication in university students

Norman Hoffman , ¿´Æ¬ÊÓƵ University

15h-15h30 Selfhood, psychopharmaceuticals and society: Narratives of psychotropic medication use among adolescents, their parents, and physicians

Kelly A. McKinney , ¿´Æ¬ÊÓƵ University

15h30-16h Adolescent experience of psychotropic treatment

Jerry Floersch , Case Western Reserve University

16h-16h30 The tenuous notion of specificity

Amir Raz , ¿´Æ¬ÊÓƵ University

16h30-17h Panel Discussion

Laurence J. Kirmayer (chair), Ellen Corin, Jerry Floersch, Norman Hoffman, Kelly A. McKinney, & Amir Raz

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