Health Care Institutions and Economics: Transforming Buddhist Practice
Saturday, 21 November, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Richard K. Payne, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding
Candy Gunther Brown, Indiana University
Marketing Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Reiki to Hospitals and Hospices as Secular, Scientific, Cost-Effective Therapies
Susan Zakin, University of Chicago
Buddhist Practices and/as Medicine in Contemplative Studies Programs: Mental Labor and the Corporatization of Health and Wellbeing
Ira Helderman, Vanderbilt University
Insider Trading and Outside Observers: The (Re)Construction of Contemporary Mindfulness Practices in U.S. Mental Health Economies
Ronald Purser, San Francisco State University
Trickle Down Mindfulness: Examining and Questioning Core Assumptions in the Corporate Mindfulness Movement
Responding:
Megan Bryson, University of Tennessee
Richard K. Payne 