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• 05 jan 2017

  Call for papers - Science studies

  Human work - measure and excess in bodily activity (19th-20th centuries)

  Conference of the Société française d’histoire des sciences et des techniques (SFHST)

  Dans le cadre du congrès 2017 de la Société française d'histoire des sciences et des techniques (Strasbourg 19-20-21 avril 2017) un symposium est consacré à l'histoire des mesures de l'activité corporelle. De manière spécifique le symposium s'intéressera au « travail » du corps et à sa metrologie.

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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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