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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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• 31 jui 2007

  Berne

  Call for papers - History

  The State, Government, Politics and Rural Society

  Workshop in Berne on 3-5 June 2008

  Call for papers for a Workshop in Berne on 3-5 June 2008This will be the last of three conferences to be held by the working group 4 on the historical dimensions of "The State, Government, Politics and Rural Society", within the wider framework of the project for the study of European rural societies of the European Science Foundation (COST action A 35 "State Agricultural Policies: Causes, Implementation and Consequences").

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