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Sunday, August 11, 8:30am
“Describing the Indescribable: Interpretation, Discourse, and
Social Learning within an Online Drug Community,” Michael L.
Rosino, University of Cincinnati
“Motivations for Prescription Drug Misuse: Recreation, Function
& Self-medication,” Amy LeClair, CHEST, Hunter College, Brian C.
Kelly, Purdue University, Brooke E. Wells, Mark Pawson and
Jeffrey T. Parsons, CHEST, Hunter College
“The Morality of Pain: Ethics and Introduction of new effective
policies on opioid use,” Maria A. Dimaki, University of Glasgow
“The Social Construction of Binge Drinking,” George W. Dowdall,
Saint Joseph’s University
“Intoxication and risks: Comparing Consequences from Alcohol,
Marijuana and Other Drugs,” Karen G. Weiss, West Virginia
University
Session 115: Health Disparities as a Social Problem
Room: Minetta
Sponsor:
Organizers &
Presiders:
Papers:
Health, Health Policy, and Health Services
Elizabeth Gage, The University at Buffalo
Lucie Kalousova, University of Michigan
Papers:
“A Strategy of Resistance in a Neoliberal World? Buen Vivir in
Ecuador,” Beth Williford, Manhattanville College
“Coercive Occupations as Vested Interests in the Status Quo,”
Vince Montes, San Jose State University
“Disappeared. Marx and the Case for Praxis in Academic
Women’s Studies,” Jacque Daugherty, Miami University
“Prefigurative Politics – Yes, Transfigurative Politics – Always: The
Centrality of the State in Addressing Social Problems,” John
O’Connor and Mary Jo A. Callaghan, Central Connecticut State
University
“The Coldest Revolution: Protest and Economic Crisis in Iceland,”
Alyssa Maraj Grahame, University of Massachusetts Amherst
“The New Faces of Poverty, Welfare and Inequality,” Afolabi
Oluwasegun Olaleye, Federal Polytechnic Offa
“Welfare Accounts: Welfare-to-Work Program Managers Excuses
and Justifications in Ohio,” Tiffany Taylor, Christi Gross, Brianna
Turgeon and Kara Whaley, Kent State University, Kasey
Lansberry Wilkes and Laura Niehaus, The University of Akron
Session 117: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Critical Issues in the
American Legal System
Room: Gershwin II
“Americans’ Conceptions about the Effectiveness of Race-Based
Medicine: Does Race Matter?” Naumi M. Feldman, Columbia
University, Mailman School of Public Health
“Cultural Beliefs and Health: Pregnant Women’s Perceptions of
Perinatal Events and their Connection to Maternal Healthcare
Disparities,” Sarah B. Garrett, University of California, Berkeley
Sponsor:
Organizers &
Presiders:
Law and Society
Jay Borchert, University of Michigan
Kathleen A. Asbury, Community College of
Philadelphia
“Global Institutions and Cross-National Disparities in Health
Outcomes,” Kristen Shorette, UC Irvine and Nolan Phillips,
University of California, Irvine
“Race, Gender, and the Doctor-Patient Visit,” B. Mitchell Peck,
Ann M. Beutel and Meredith P. Denney, University of Oklahoma
“Race/Ethnicity and Traumatic Brain Injury: Are there Diagnosis
Disparities among Returning OEF and OIF Service Members?”
Ashleigh E. Kysar-Moon and Sarah A. Mustillo, Purdue University
THEMATIC
Session 116: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Marxist Critique &
Prefigurative Politics: New Approaches to Social
Problems
Room: Gershwin I
Sponsor:
Organizer:
Poverty, Class, and Inequality
Shawn A. Cassiman, University of Dayton
Papers:
“Community Court Effectiveness in a Rural Setting,” Michael J.
Hogan and Tara O’Connor Shelley, Colorado State University
“Competition, cooperation, and community in prison: An
empirical examination of collective identity and collective efficacy
among transgender prisoners,” Lori Sexton, University of
Missouri, Kansas City and Valerie Jenness, University of California
- Irvine
“Jim Crow in Jail: Race as a Mechanism of Social Control in a
Penal Institution,” Michael Lawrence Walker, University of
California, Riverside, Winner of the Racial and Ethnic Minorities
Division’s Student Paper Competition
“Mass Incarceration and the Carceral Social Order,” Patrick
Lopez-Aguado, UC Santa Barbara
“Who wants to be special? Pathologization and the preparation
of bodies for prison,” Deanna Adams, Syracuse University
Presider:
Tiffany Taylor, Kent State University
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