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Below please find our call for papers. Thank you for your assistance
in posting, Regards
Call for papers: EDITED VOLUME "CULTURAL POLITICS AND TRUTH-CLAIMS"
Dr Monica Bonaccorso ([log in to unmask])
University of Cambridge
Dept. of Social Anthropology
Free School Lane
Cambridge CB2 3RF (UK)
Dr Lucia Tanassi ([log in to unmask])
Center for Clinical and Research Ethics
319 Oxford House
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN 37232-4350 (USA)
The science philosopher Paul Feyerabend writes: '...science is much closer
to myth than a scientific philosophy is prepared to admit'. In this volume
we want to explore the relations and tensions in medicine and
science(understood in its broadest sense) by examining the currency of
truth-claims and their deployment in everyday thought and practice. Our
experience in the contexts of human cloning/xenotransplantation and
organ/tissue procurement shows that scientists and other professionals use
a language of truth-claims in two different contexts: one in peer relations
and one in the public arena (e.g. with patients as well as interactions
with the 'public'). In all cases, but not in the same fashion, they may aim
truth-claims and the values they carry to assert professional credibility;
to foster client/public confidence, trust and consensus; to promote
'market' trustworthiness; in essence to assert an ideological stance. In
making such claims, scientists and other professionals recur to a
multiplicity of sources (within and without science) showing in appearance
more adaptability than it is often assumed. We believe this comes with some
implications for the reification of certain scientific ideologies. In this
light we ask three critical questions: a) What truth-claims tell us about
the expanding culture of bio-medicine and science in general in different
places around the world? b) What do they tell us about the cultural context
and values in which they are produced? c) More broadly, what are the
ethical implications of deploying truth-claims in everyday scientific
thought and practice? Our focus on clinical and scientific contexts is
broadly conceived, and we welcome contributions from various disciplinary
approaches and geographic loci.
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Dr Monica M.E. Bonaccorso
University of Cambridge
Dept. of Social Anthropology
Free School Lane
Cambridge CB2 3RF, UK
+44 (0)1223 334697 (wk)
+44 (0)7885 547896 (mob)
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