Talk – 'Medicine and Body Politics'

When: March 10, 2018 1:00pm

UA assistant professor of anthropology Eric Plemons joins Sherine Hamdy and Coleman Nye to discuss medical approaches to the body and the broader social, political and ethical issues that stem from surgery. Their expertise includes facial feminization surgeries for transgender women; cancer surgeries for cis, trans, queer, and non-binary individuals with BRCA mutations; and the religious and gendered issues around organ transplantation.

The talk, part of the Tucson Festival of Books, is co-sponsored by College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies.


Audience: All

Where

Campus: Main Campus

Address

Contact info & links

Contacts

Megan Young Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Requests for disability-related accommodations should be directed to the event's primary contact: Megan Young