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• 15 jan 2015

  Berne

  Call for papers - History

  Elections and electoral corruption in the Modern era (1500-1800)

  Les élections et la corruption sont deux champs de recherche qui font l’objet de plusieurs manifestations scientifiques et publications au cours de la dernière décennie sans être vraiment mis en relation. En rassemblant des chercheurs sur ces deux objets d’étude, le colloque a pour objectif d’aborder une thématique encore peu explorée, celle de la corruption électorale.

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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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