Seminar Series – Susan Bell of Drexel University
Please join us on December 4th, 2015, as we welcome Professor Susan Bell of Drexel University as our final Fall 2015 Seminar Series speaker. Professor Bell will present “Interpreting for Immigrants in Hospital Clinics: An Ethnography of Outpatient Care in Maine.”
December 4th, 2015
SOC Room 241 – 12PM
100 Cummington Mall, Boston MA 02215
Free and Open to the Public!
Biography: Susan Bell is Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Sociology at Drexel University. Her specialty is the sociology of health and illness, in which she investigates the experience of illness, women’s health, and visual and performative representations of the politics of cancer, medicine, and women’s bodies. Currently, she is exploring the global flow of biomedical knowledge and spatial permeability by listening to and analyzing stories constructed in interactions between immigrant patient populations and staff in a U.S. hospital outpatient clinic.