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• 01 jui 2018

  Lausanne

  Appel à contribution - Sociologie

  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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• 29 sep 2016

  30 sep 2016

  Paris

  Colloque - Sociologie

  “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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• 17 oct 2013

  18 oct 2013

  Paris

  Journée d'étude - Études des sciences

  Entre nature et technique. Sciences, savoirs et stratégies du corps féminin (XVIIIe-XXIe siècle)

  Quel est le rôle joué par la pensée et la pratique scientifiques dans la construction, voire la légitimation, de la domination masculine sur les femmes ? Quel est, au contraire, le rôle actif du corps, notemment féminin, dans la construction et la déconstruction des savoirs ? Dans ces journées d'étude il s'agira surtout de prendre comme objet d'analyse le corps féminin en tant que « lieu possible de toutes les interventions », c'est-à dire en tant que matériel, source et ressource pour la production de savoirs, de pratiques et de techniques d'intervention sur soi et de transformation de soi, pour une expérimentation constante brouillant la netteté des frontières biologiques, des limites du corps lui-même et de ses capacités productrices et reproductrices.

   

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