2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

THURSDAY
2:30 – 4:00 P.M.
Mardi Gras D (3rd Floor)
2142 Medical Humanities: Health, Disease & Culture IV: Law, Media, and
Portrayals of Patients and Doctors
Chair: Carol-Ann Farkas, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health
Sciences-Boston
"’…[Y]ou wouldn’t believe the crap people let me get away with’: Intentional Torts
as Good Medicine on House"
Sharon Sutherland, University of British Columbia
Sarah Swan, Independent Scholar
"Rhetoric of Wrongful Life and Wrongful Birth Lawsuits"
Rochelle Gregory, North Central Texas College
"The Shifting Dynamic of Medical Dominance via Popular Culture"
Linda Saladin-Adams, Florida State University
"The Strange Case of the Medical Mystery: The Pros and Cons of Treating Cases
like Crimes"
Carol-Ann Farkas
La Galerie 6 (2nd Floor)
2143 Jack London's Life & Works II: Boxing and the Author
Chair: Jay Williams, University of Chicago
"With Gloves On: Jack London's ‘The Mexican’ and the Mexican Revolution in the
U.S. Popular Imagination"
Alberto Varon, University of Texas at Austin
"Jack London and Boxing’s Abysmal Brutes"
Matthew Andrews, UNC-Chapel Hill
"Jack London as Poet"
George Adams, University of Wisconsin-White Water
"The Hobo Artist in the Arctic"
Jay Williams
Preservation Hall Studio 6 (2nd Floor)
2144 Journalism & Media Culture II: Print Journalism: Transition or
Endgame?
Chair: Frank Nevius, Western Oregon University
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