Dear all,
Please see the following call for participants for a session at 4S/EASST this year.
Rgds
Kirstie
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Ulrike Felt & Ruth Müller
EASST/4S conference "Acting with science, technology and medicine"
Rotterdam, August 20 -- 23, 2008
Heterogeneous (Id)Entities and Biomedical Technologies: Exploring
Socio-political Meanings
Over the past few years, a growing amount of research has focussed on
questions of the entities and identities involved and produced in the
contexts of novel biomedical technologies. An again increasing number of
these studies has emphasised the complex and heterogeneous character of
these emerging (id)entities, and traced how they are shaped in close
relation to the specific local contexts of their formation.
Despite these efforts, what we feel is increasingly missing, is to bring
together these situated storylines and ask what these narrations of
heterogeneity may mean in a larger social-political perspective. This
implies to develop axes and dimensions of comparison between different
existing and future bodies of work, and to debate its political
implications.
Our session aims at fostering a discussion that builds a comparative
reflection of individual case studies and thus mutually sharpens our
understanding of different forms of heterogeneity and our vision of
their implications in a wider socio-political sense.
Thus, papers are invited to address and explore the meanings of
heterogeneity and (id)entity in specific biomedical contexts, aiming at
opening up a discussion to compare these findings on different levels,
such as national political culture, the distinct character and history
of different biomedical technologies or the local specifics of their
application.
In order to give room for this moment of comparing and bringing together
these different strands of work also within the session structure, the
individual contributions will be commented and interrelated by a discussant.
If you are in Rotterdam and interested in participating, please send an
abstract (maximum 350 words) to [log in to unmask] or
[log in to unmask] until February 10.
Warm regards from Vienna
Ulrike&Ruth
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Mag.a Ruth Mueller
Institut fuer Wissenschaftsforschung
Department for Social Studies of Science
Universitaet Wien / University of Vienna
Sensengasse 8/10
1090 Wien
Tel.: 0043-1-4277-49613; Fax: 0043-1-4277-9496
http://www.univie.ac.at/virusss
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Dr. phil. Michael Nagenborg
Rüppurrer Str. 116
D-76137 Karlsruhe
Tel. +49(0)721 3545955
Fax +49(0)721 3545956
www.michaelnagenborg.de
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