Call for papers:
CHSTM Workshop:
Mediating Biomedicine: Engaging, Resisting, Negotiating
To be held at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and
Medicine,
University of Manchester,
Friday 10 September and Saturday 11 September 2004
Like contemporary specialists in science communication, historians of
medicine and science have largely rejected simple "top-down" models of
interactions between everyday people and biomedical experts. Instead,
they focus on the complexity and diversity of motives, interests, and
understandings that have characterized past as well as present
encounters centred on biomedical knowledge.
This small, workshop-style conference will bring together historians
exploring dynamic relationships between educators and audiences, experts
and laypeople, professionals and patients. The questions we will
address include:
-- How have expert producers and lay consumers of biomedical knowledge
regarded each other, and how have they viewed the actors - journalists,
popularizers, educators, activists, officials, and others - who have
sought to mediate between them?
-- How have these relationships evolved over time? How have the roles
of the actors and institutions that mediate biomedicine changed? Have
new media altered these relationships and roles, and if so, how?
-- How can our historical understanding of past efforts to mediate
biomedicine inform present attempts to comprehend and improve
relationships between experts and laypeople?
A limited number of places are still available on the conference
programme. We invite scholars interested in presenting to submit a
300-word abstract to the conference organizers. Please send abstracts,
including full contact information,
1) by email to [log in to unmask], or
2) by post to: Dr. Elizabeth Toon, Centre for the History of Science,
Technology and Medicine, Maths Tower Rm. 3.32A, Oxford Road, University
of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL (United Kingdom).
For full consideration, abstracts must be emailed or postmarked by 16
April 2004.
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Elizabeth Toon, Ph.D.
Centre for the History of Science,
Technology, and Medicine
University of Manchester
email: [log in to unmask]
phone: 0161.275.0562
office address:
Maths Tower 3.32A, Oxford Rd.
University of Manchester
Manchester M13 9PL
UNITED KINGDOM
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