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• 01 jui 2018

  Lausanne

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Minimising Risks, Selling Promises?

  Reproductive Health, Techno-Scientific Innovations and the Production of Ignorance

  Over the last decades, medical techno-scientific innovations have radically transformed reproductive processes at every level by putting the reproductive body under strict biomedical surveillance and submitting it to significant technological manipulation. Most of these innovations, often promoted as miracles and even revolutions, were generalised very rapidly thanks to ever-growing national and global markets. Their side effects on health were, however, insufficiently studied, or even ignored, until scandals (diethylstilbestrol, thalidomide, primodos, Dalkon Shield) or controversies (contraceptive pill, hormonal replacement therapy) unavoidably made them public. At the crossroads of STS, sociology of risk, medical anthropology, gender studies and ignorance studies, the aim of this international conference is to analyse the dynamics of ignorance production prior to, during but also after the rapid expansion of reproductive technologies, innovations and products.

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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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• 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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• 28 nov 2011

  Ivry-sur-Seine

  Seminar - Sociology

  Pesticides and Farmworkers Health

  Norms: construction and deconstruction

  Cette journée est la première d’une série dont l’objectif est de réunir et faire interagir des chercheurs et des professionnels de différents horizons travaillant sur les effets sur la santé des travailleurs agricoles des pesticides auxquels ils peuvent être exposés. Cette première journée est construite autour de la thématique des « normes ». Nous proposons d’interroger les normes juridiques, les normes techniques et les normes sociales à l’œuvre dans la gestion des effets des pesticides sur la santé des travailleurs agricoles. Il s’agit tout à la fois de regarder comment ces normes sont construites et mises œuvre et de déconstruire les discours et les logiques qui les portent.

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