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Dear colleagues,

would you please circulate this cfp for the 4S/EASST-meeting in Rotterdam?
Thank you very much and kind regards,

Tom Mathar

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Sorry for any cross-posting
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*Call for papers*

Session "Health Promotion and Prevention Programmes in Practice"


At the 4S/EASST conference "Acting with science, technology and 
medicine" Rotterdam, August 20-23, 2008

Session organisers: Yvonne Jansen (iBMG-Erasmus MC Rotterdam) and Thomas 
Mathar (Humboldt University Berlin)

In this session, we would like to discuss a range of currently applied 
prevention initiatives for all kinds of diseases -- such as on obesity, 
cancer, or secondary prevention programmes e.g. on chronic heart failure 
-- that assist individuals to constitute themselves in a healthy way - 
in becoming 'preventive selves'. Fields could be - but are not 
restricted to - randomised controlled trials for testing the 
effectiveness of the initiatives, telemedicine projects for specific 
groups of individuals being 'at risk', or genetic research for 
developing preventive pharmacological medical treatments.

For the session, we would like to present studies that analyse 
prevention programmes as the networks in their moral and ethical 
contexts. We set value on presenting the multiplicity of these 
programmes by presenting partialities, instabilities and their 
situatedness. In-depth analysis of prevention initiatives should focus 
on the relational character of all elements inherent to prevention 
initiatives to explain how prevention programmes and patients being "at 
risk" permanently (re-) produce each other. Because of the aim to 
present detailed field analysis, we especially encourage qualitatively 
working STS researchers to submit.

Hence, the papers we would like to invite could address the following 
topics:

    * deconstructing specific prevention regimes for presenting the
      complexity and multiplicity of these initiatives
    * a relational analysis of how thoughts on prevention, prevention
      initiatives and/or health care practice interrelate
    * the performative nature of prevention programmes; what is being
      (re)constructed or stabilized in the initiatives, by whom and why?
    * in accordance with the overall 4S/EASST call: reflections on the
      interventionist character of  STS research studying prevention
      initiatives; the constitution of and relations with research
      objects and participants; the influences on methodological
      choices; and the construction of research products.

We invite papers from different disciplinary perspectives. Although we 
do not want to restrict our invitation, we would like to especially 
encourage PhD students working in this area of research to participate 
as a way of providing a platform for presenting ones (preliminary) 
findings, expanding ones experience and professional network. 

Please send an abstract of a paper (between 250-500 words, with 
appropriate empirical and thematic keywords) dealing with the 
aforementioned issues and/or related issues to the session organisers 
*by Friday February 8, 2008.*

Yvonne Jansen, Institute of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus 
University Medical Center Rotterdam, department of Healthcare 
Governance, eMail: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>

Thomas Mathar, Department of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu 
Berlin, eMail: [log in to unmask] 
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>


-- 
Thomas Mathar, PhD Student
Research Cluster: Preventive Self

Humboldt-University Berlin
Dept. of European Ethnology
Mohrenstr. 41
D-10117 Berlin

Tel: (49)30-2093 3724
Fax: (49)30-2093 3739

www.csal.de

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