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Conference announcement:
MAKING MEDICINE COUNT? A WORKSHOP ON EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE IN PRACTICE
Registration is now open for this workshop, which will take place in
Cambridge on 27th March, at the Centre for Research in the Arts,
Social Sciences and Humanities.
This one-day event will bring together a wide range of researchers
investigating the use of statistical styles of reasoning in the
clinic and healthcare policy.
Key speakers include Stefan Timmermans (UCLA) and Carl May
(Newcastle), with other papers addressing
- changing appeals and different uses of 'evidence' in healthcare
policy and practice
- knowledge production in the era of randomised controlled trials;
means and ends in clinical research
- concepts of objectivity, reliability, rigour and relevance in
medicine; processes of standardisation and quantification in the clinic
ALL WELCOME! BOOKING FORMS ARE AVAILABLE ON THE CRASSH WEBSITE FOR
THE WORKSHOP (£15 full fee, £7.50 concessions).
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2006-7/medicine.html
We are grateful for financial support from the Centre for Research in
the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) and the Foundation
for the Sociology of Health and Illness. If you have any questions,
please feel free to contact Catherine Will ([log in to unmask]) or
CRASSH.
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
09.30-10.00. Registration and coffee
10.00-10.10. Introduction
10.10-10.50. Stefan Timmermans (UCLA) "Standardisation in healthcare"
10.50-12.30. Panel 1: The importance of evidence in healthcare
policy and organisation
Tiago Moreira (Durham) "Health technology assessment and its
public controversies"
Alex Faulkner (Cardiff) "Healthcare science as pastoral care:
mediating risk and governance in prostate cancer detection studies in
the UK"
Helen Lambert (Bristol) "Evidence after practice? The uses of
evidence for screening"
12.30-13.30. Lunch
13.30-14.10. Carl May (Newcastle) "When trials don't work: means,
management and methodology"
14.10-15.50. Panel 2: Producing knowledge in medical trials
Trudy Dehue (Gronigen) "The doctor, the dealer, and the
druggist and the distinction made by the RCT"
Linsey McGoey (LSE) "Adverse evidence: RCTs and the political
value of uncertainty"
Ann Kelly (LSHTM) "The Randomised Clinical Trial: Fact-Making
and The Science of Social Benefit"
15.50-16.20. Coffee break
16.20-17.30. Panel 3: Practices of quantification from research to
the clinic
Tom Mathar (Humboldt) "Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) -
Classification-systems and health-care markets from an ethnological
perspective"
Rob Flynn (Salford) "Tacit Knowledge in the use of Outcome
Measures: clinical decision-making in neuro-rehabilitation"
17.30-18.20. Panel discussion: Evolving concepts of both evidence and
practice
Michael Traynor (Middlesex), David Pencheon (Cambridge), Carl
May and Stefan Timmermans
19:30 Workshop dinner at Emmanuel College.
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