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• 24 sep 2013

  25 sep 2013

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Science studies

  From silicosis to silica hazards: an experiment in medicine, history and the social sciences

  What are the biases inherited from the constitution of medical knowledge? How does returning to the root of “scientific truth” open new avenues to contemporary research? The present colloquium is an unprecedented interdisciplinary experiment whereby medical experts, epidemiologists and historians will question the very foundations of current medical knowledge of silica hazards, in order to discuss the unknown origin of a range of systemic diseases.

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• 14 sep 2013

  15 sep 2013

  Paris

  Miscellaneous information - Europe

  The promises of space

  Encounters at the heart of the exhibition

  Dans le cadre des journées européennes du patrimoine, l’Observatoire de l’espace du CNES, son pôle culturel, propose « Les promesses de l'espace », la première rétrospective consacrée aux expositions sur l’espace. Durant l’exposition, de 15h à 17h30, des historiens, des acteurs du monde spatial et des commissaires d’exposition apporteront un éclairage sur les promesses de l’espace en partageant avec le public dix chroniques d’une vingtaine de minutes.

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• 31 mar 2013

  Berne

  Call for papers - History

  Medical expertise in the 20th and 21st centuries

  Medical expertise in the 20th and 21st century / Medizinische Expertise im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert / L'expertise médicale aux XXe et XXIe siècles. Annual conference of the Swiss Society for the History of Medicine and Sciences, September 5 – 7, 2013, Bern, Switzerland. The conference would like to address the issue from various perspectives and ask e.g. the following questions: To which levels of medical knowledge and activity (skill, professional knowledge, experience, relationship with patients) did and does the claim of expertise refer to? Which strategies, rhetorics and kinds of self-fashioning were and are used in order to achieve, retain or reject the status of expertise? Which was and is the relationship between expertise, profession(nalism), institutionalization and specialization? In what respect is there a difference between a physician's claim of expertise and that of other health professionals?

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