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  • Lausanne

    Call for papers - Sociology

    Minimising Risks, Selling Promises?

    Reproductive Health, Techno-Scientific Innovations and the Production of Ignorance

    Over the last decades, medical techno-scientific innovations have radically transformed reproductive processes at every level by putting the reproductive body under strict biomedical surveillance and submitting it to significant technological manipulation. Most of these innovations, often promoted as miracles and even revolutions, were generalised very rapidly thanks to ever-growing national and global markets. Their side effects on health were, however, insufficiently studied, or even ignored, until scandals (diethylstilbestrol, thalidomide, primodos, Dalkon Shield) or controversies (contraceptive pill, hormonal replacement therapy) unavoidably made them public. At the crossroads of STS, sociology of risk, medical anthropology, gender studies and ignorance studies, the aim of this international conference is to analyse the dynamics of ignorance production prior to, during but also after the rapid expansion of reproductive technologies, innovations and products.

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  • Toulouse

    Study days - History

    La santé en chiffres (XXe siècle) : des sciences sociales aux politiques sociales

    Cette journée d'étude s'inscrit dans le séminaire annuel de l'équipe « Santé et société » du laboratoire FRAMESPA, UMR 5136, CNRS-Univ. Toulouse II. Son objectif est d'explorer quelques facettes des liens entre la construction d'un savoir statistique en matière de santé et la (re)définition des politiques sociales et sanitaires au XXe siècle. Les questions abordées porteront notamment sur la configuration sociale de la production  des statistiques sanitaires au cours du siècle, le rôle et l'attitude des médecins (France et Espagne) après la Seconde Guerre mondiale vis à vis d'une approche chiffrée de la santé, les circulations entre outils de connaissance et outil de gestion institutionnelle ou de crise en matière sanitaire. Des exposés généraux seront complétés par plusieurs études de cas.

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