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• 16 oct 2015

  Berne

  Conference, symposium - History

  Data and historical sciences

  Le 16 octobre 2015 aura lieu à Berne le colloque infoclio.ch 2015 sur le thème : « Données et sciences historiques ». Ce colloque est le septième de la série « Médias et sciences historiques ». Que sont les « données » au juste ? Comment sont-elles obtenues, et quelle est leur fonction dans la production des savoirs ? Pour son septième colloque annuel, infoclio.ch invite des historiennes et des historiens, ainsi que des professionnels de la documentation pour discuter du rôle des données dans les sciences historiques.

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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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