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• 01 nov 2017

  London

  Call for papers - Information

  Broadcasting health and disease

  Bodies, markets and television, 1950s-1980s

  The three-day conference aims to investigate how television programmes in their multiplicity approached issues like medical progress and its limits, healthy behaviour or new forms of exercise by adapting them to TV formats and programming...The conference seeks to analyse how television and its evolving formats expressed and staged bodies, health and fitness from local, regional, national and international perspectives. How spectators were invited not only to be TV consuming audiences, but how shows and TV set-ups integrated and sometimes pretended to transform the viewer into a participant of the show. TV programmes spread the conviction that subjects had the ability to shape their own body.

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• 29 sep 2016

  30 sep 2016

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Sociology

  “Medicalized” Childbirth as a Public Problem

  Risk Culture(s), Gender Politics, Techno-Reflexivities

  Obstetrical knowledge, technologies and practices have dramatically transformed women’s reproductive experiences worldwide. Medicalization of childbirth was accelerated in the XX^th century by the displacement of childbirth from home to the hospital, and by the generalization of surgical techniques and pharmaceutical products. Medical interventionism took multiple, situated forms. Relying on cross-cultural investigations and field data from diverse national contexts (France, USA, Italy, Brazil, Senegal, Turkey, Switzerland, Canada…), this international workshop investigates how “technological” birth came into being, and how it is produced, problematized, framed, and negotiated in the XXI^st century.

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• 01 mar 2012

  Oslo

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Sociology and Social Work: Theory and Practice

  The second conference on Sociology and Social Work will be held in Oslo, Norway, May 30 and 31, 2012. The theme of the conference is « Theory and Practice ». The location will be Oslo University College in the center of Oslo, Norway. The first conference on Sociology and Social work was in Lisbon, May 2011.

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• 26 jui 2011

  Chaves

  Call for papers - History

  From villes thermales to sustainable health and wellness destinations

  O prazo de envio de resumos para a Conferência Internacional "De vilas termais para destinos de saúde e bem-estar sustentáveis” foi prolongado.Data limite de submissão de resumos (em português, espanhol e inglês): Domingo, 26 de Junho de 2011.

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