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 * Topical Area || Data Sets || Social Theoretical Questions || Why Now || How Prepared || Biases || Fields of Work || Funders ||
 * Medical Tourism, International Travel for Healthcare, Global Healthcare Restructuring and Economic Development || -Ethnographic Interviews & Observation - Published accounts - Local Ethnographies of healthcare - comparative sociology of healthcare - qualitative data on tourism and travel - Media and Literary texts || Relationship of place and knowledge eg The universality/locality of knowledge; relationship of econ system and conception of health ; Public responsibility and personal agency; shaping of normal and ideology, transparency v mediation || Phenomenon has expanded and seems to have changed form in recent years; immediate effect on healthcare provided in involved countries; || Initiated study of publications, and discourse. Started review of ethnographic material on key locations. Preperation in knowledge of social science theory and methods || I presume that medical care is a good thing. I assume corporate ownership limits care for marginal groups. I assume economic factors are central in shaping institutions. || Comparative Health Studies; Medical Anthropology; STS; Globalization and Transnationalism Studies, history of medicine || NSF, NIH, Fulbright ||
 * Smoking bans, sitting on the street corner, Cellphones in the street and pornography behind the counter, The Changing control of Public and Private Space, changing ideas of intimacy. || Historical and media records, extensive published academic analysis, ethnography || mechanisms of ideological control, changing concepts of normal, conception of public and private space, proper behavior versus stigma, publicly acceptable forms of health and unhealthy || Recent national dialogue on the rights of individuals in healthcare, publiic expression and art… diminishing civil liberties in US…rise? of fundamentalism and social control globally || Lifetime experience as an urban dweller and member of the social world to be studied, background in urban studies and sociology, knowledge of social science theory and methods || As a smoker, I see much of the social structuring of public space as infringing on personal choice, the constructions of participation in a 'healthy' public space as being directly structured through reference to 'bad' behaviors. || Urban studies in anthropology and sociology; STS; medical anthropology; social history || NSF, Wenner Gren ||
 * Founding of the field of "social medicine" and the choices of inclusion and exclusion of social scientific ideas to supplement traditional public health || Disciplinary journals and institutional archives, association newsletters and records, interviews and oral history, textual analysis || Traditional focus in STS on boundary work and institutional formation; formations of notions of 'the social'; development of 'competance' and focus in medical education || The field has only existed a few years, and was founded to try to shift attention to social determinants of health. Rising stratificaiton and recent economic collapse suggests a need for more social medicine but the form it takes may not be helpful. || Social connections with faculty and students in public health and social medicine. Some literacy in the argot and epistemology of public health, knowledge of social science theory and methods || I am starting from a position in which I am skeptical about the synoptic version of social science that has been integrated into social medicine. But some social medicine was needed and the shift must have been better than none at all. || STS; History of medicine; Journals of Social Medicine and medical education || NIH, NSF, Local archival and medical school research fellowships ||
 * Effect and Functio of Science Fiction Genre as source of Tropes, language, and future imaginaries in the sciences, particularly the biosciences. || NSF and NIH proposals and funding reports. Records of Publication. Media and Technical publications by scientists. Science Fiction genre publications, Science fiction studies and STS academic literatures; Science fiction texts (novels, comics, TV, movies) || Conflict over function of metaphor in science, Marginalization of ideas, promising in science discourse, guiding effect of imaginaries. Mediation/Representation/Realism/Relativism debates in epistemology and sociology of knowledge || Current popular interest in Sci-fi offers a way to popularize STS. metaphor may be made visible to scientists more easily, effect on funding and public statements than internal to science, and funding has direct impact on knowledge production. || Some knowledge of Sci fi, preliminary readings in sci-fi studies, current plans to present at conferences, some knowledge of rhetorical and media studies, access to documents, || I like SciFi. I think SciFi has an impact on the language used by scientists. I think that the imaginaries in literature have effect on how people imagine the real future. || Science Fiction Studies, STS, Technical Communications, Media Studies, Popular Communications || NSF? ||
 * The SemioticMaterial Technology of Money: how a valueless thing rules the world. || Sociology and Economic theory, STS and literary critical theory, theories of social control. Discourse analysis, interviews. || Theory of value, the relativistic nature of economics; possibility of social control; how something becomes common-sense || People want to read about the economy at the moment, traditional social constructionist concern with destabalizing the taken for grantedness of the thing. || little to none || "money is the root of all evil" || Sociology of economics maybe || No idea. ||