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Looks like a great event. Let me know if you’re going. I’m going to try to make it (although I have an exam that following week)

Islam & Health: Treating Muslims: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Saturday, November 17, 2007

8:30am - 4:00pm

New York University School of Medicine
401 E. 30th Street, Lecture Hall Schwartz F
New York, NY

The impact Islam, as a tradition, on the health care practices of Muslims serves as an example of how powerful religion impacts health. While the culture and behavior of over one billion Muslims worldwide cannot be represented by simplistic essentialist terms, they share a common religious tradition that is contexualized in distinct times and places. To begin to demonstrate the role of the Islamic tradition on Muslim practices, an interdisciplinary group of academics across the fields of anthropology, ethics, medicine, public policy, religious studies, and sociology will share their thoughts, research, and experiences at this conference at New York University ’s School of Medicine .

Sponsored by The Institute of Social Policy and Understanding

Conference fee: $50 ($20 for students with valid I.D.)

For more information and to register visit: www.med.nyu.edu/ichr/chad/events/events.html
or contact: germaine.choice@med.nyu.edu

8:45-9:00 Introduction: Mekbib Gemeda, NYU Assistantn Dean for Diversity Affairs

9:00-10:00 Welcome and Keynote. Islam a Historical Perspective. Dean Marion
Reyes, MD Director of New York University Institute of Community Health and
Research

10:00-11:30 Panel I. Sexual Health.

Discussant: Zareena Grewal, PhD, American Studies, Yale University

1. Constraceptive Use and Reproductive Education in Pakistan– Ayesha Ali, MD New York
University

2. In Vitro Fertilization and Gamete Donation in Sunni versus Shi’a Islam – Marcia Inhorn,
PhD, Departments of Public Health and Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan

3. Without Shame: Obstretic Cases from LA’s Muslim Free Clinic - Leila Marayati, MD,
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Southern California

11:30-11:45 Coffee Break

11:45-1:15 Panel II. Mental Health.

Discussant: Wahiba Abu Ras M.S.W., PhD, MPH Rutgers University

1. Competence versus Insanity in Islamic Law - Kutaiba Chelaby, MD, Waymart Forensic
Treatment Center, former Chief of Psychiatry King Faisal Hospital, Saudi Arabia

2. Cultural Presentations of Psychiatric Symptoms among South Asian Muslims in New
York Carla Hutchinson, MA, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University

3. Blurred Boundaries: Muslim Mental Healthcare in New York - Hamada Hamid, DO,
Center for Global Health, Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology, New York University

1:15-2:15 Lunch

2:15-3:45 Panel III. Death and Dying

Discussant: Zareena Grewal, PhD, American Studies, Yale University

1. Death in the Family: ICU Cases in Arab Detroit – Hassan Shanawani, MD, Wayne State
University

2. Grieving Rituals among Yemeni Americans - Beth Kangus, PhD, Department of
Anthropology, Wayne State University

3. Cultivating Steadfastedness: The Notion of ‘Passive Fatalism’ in Muslim Medical Ethics -
Sherine Hamdy, PhD, Department of Anthropology, Brown University