Thursday June 14th, 2007
| 8h30-9h | Registration |
| 9h-9h30 | Welcome & Introduction: From Amrita to Substance D: Politics, practice and experience in the social life of psychiatric medication Laurence J. Kirmayer, McGill University |
| The History and Political Economy of Psychopharmacology and Psychiatric Science | |
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| 9h30-10h | Methods and madness: Severe mental illness in the age of psychopharmacology Joel Braslow , University of California at Los Angeles |
| 10h-10h30 | Psychopharmacology in the age of anxiety: The Miltown revolution in historical context Andrea Tone , McGill University |
| 10h30-11h | Break |
| 11h-11h30 | Gender stereotypes in the diagnosis of depression: Systematic content analysis of medical records Jonathan Metzl , University of Michigan |
| 11h30-12h | Cargo cult science: On the interaction between evidence, medicine and commerce David Healy , Cardiff University |
| 12h-12h30 | Panel Discussion Laurence J. Kirmayer (chair), Joel Braslow, David Healy, Jonathan Metzl & Andrea Tone |
| 12h30 –14h | Lunch |
| From Politics to Practice | |
| 14h-14h30 | Partial truths and competing paradigms: Stakes in the administration of drug compliance in the treatment of ADHD Kalman Applbaum , University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee |
| 14h30-15h | Pills that swallow policy: India's National Mental Health Program Sumeet Jain & Sushrut Jadhav , University College London |
| 15h-15h30 | Ways of distributing pills in India: The case of fluoxetine (Prozac) Stefan Ecks , University of Edinburgh |
| 15h30-16h | Break |
| 16h-16h30 | Psychotropic medication use with children and adolescents: A comparative study Vivianne Kovess , McGill University/Fondation MGEN |
| 16h30-17h | Edgy ethics and storied science: Marketing neuroscience as the truth of depression Nathan Greenslit , Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 17h-17h45 | Panel Discussion Sushrut Jadhav (chair), Kalman Applbaum, Stefan Ecks, Sumeet Jain, & Vivianne Kovess |
| 17h45-18h | Launch of the Transcultural Psychiatry Festschrift for Raymond Prince |
| 18h-19h | Reception and Poster Session |
| 19h-21h | Hoffman's Potion (film) Panel Discussion |
Friday, June 15th, 2007
| Popular and Professional Knowledge and the Uses of Medication | |
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| 9h-9h15 | Introduction Cécile Rousseau , McGill University |
| 9h15-9h45 | Ethnic medication: Towards a new scientific racism? Sylvaine De Plaen , Hôpital Sacre-Coeur |
| 9h45-10h15 | Therapeutic reasoning and the rationales underlying day-to-day psychotropic prescribing practices: Back to 19th century therapeutic relativism? Johanne Collin , Université de Montréal |
| 10h15-10h45 | Tense prescriptions: Doctor's knowledge and doubts regarding Alzheimer medications in Brazil Annette Liebing , Université de Montréal |
| 10h45-11h15 | Break |
| 11h15-11h45 | Scripting control: Aboriginal and mainstream Canadian understandings of "phamily life" Michael Oldani , University of Wisconsin at Whitewater |
| 11h45-12h15 | Panel Discussion Cécile Rousseau (chair), Johanne Collin, Sylvaine De Plaen, Annette Liebing & Michael Oldani |
| 12h15-14h | Lunch |
| Phenomenological Pharmacology | |
| 14h-14h30 | Uncertainty in an era of evidence-based practices: The ambiguous texture of medicines on a transcultural clinical scene Ellen Corin, Cécile Rousseau & Annie Gauthier , McGill University |
| 14h30-15h | Psychological ramifications of psychiatric medication in university students Norman Hoffman , McGill University |
| 15h-15h30 | Selfhood, psychopharmaceuticals and society: Narratives of psychotropic medication use among adolescents, their parents, and physicians Kelly A. McKinney , McGill University |
| 15h30-16h | Adolescent experience of psychotropic treatment Jerry Floersch , Case Western Reserve University |
| 16h-16h30 | The tenuous notion of specificity Amir Raz , McGill University |
| 16h30-17h | Panel Discussion Laurence J. Kirmayer (chair), Ellen Corin, Jerry Floersch, Norman Hoffman, Kelly A. McKinney, & Amir Raz |