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> From: Tron Harald Torneby <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: Tron
> Harald Torneby <[log in to unmask]> Subject: PhD Course in
> Medical Anthropology
>
> Announcement of PhD Course:
>
> The Ethics and Political Economy of Medical Research -
> Anthropological Perspectivess Lecturer: Senior lecturer in
> Anthropology Paul Wenzel Geissler,
>
> Main disciplines: Social Anthropology, Sociology, History, Social
> Studies of Science, Public Health
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> Dates: 21 - 25 July 2008 Location: University of Oslo, Norway
>
> Course Credits: 10 pts (ECTS) Limitation: 30 participants
>
> Online application form and further information at: http://
> www.sv.uio.no/oss/index.html
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>
> Course objectives Medical field research among study populations in
> economically deprived societies - traditionally in Africa, Latin
> America and Asia, and more recently also including some of the
> `post-socialist´ countries - has throughout the 20th century
> provided a laboratory for biological, medical and administrative
> knowledge and practice. In addition to the discovery and
> dissemination of innovative technologies to alleviate ill-health,
> such research has generated transnational relationships between
> researchers and researched people, among scientists and within
> study communities and the wider public, as well as between academia
> and government, charities and industry. Linking different and
> disparate people, things and places, these networks transcend the
> neat scientific separation between subjects and objects of study to
> form wider `collectives´ of knowledge production. These embrace
> both `study populations´ and `the scientific community´, and -
> spread across sites and institutions in diverse regions of the
> world - challenge familiar dichotomies such as `global´ and `local
> ´, or `modern´ and its diverse opposites.
>
> The social processes of `overseas´ research have - despite their
> academic interest and applied relevance, especially in relation to
> the ethics and politics of bioscientific research - only recently
> gained the attention of anthropologists. Our seminar delineates
> this new field of anthropological inquiry, aiming to combine
> `ethical´ concerns (in the broadest sense of the word) with
> historical, economic and political ones. By drawing upon social
> anthropological literature (and case material, to be added) and on
> the participants´ ongoing or planned research work, we will explore
> a research agenda that challenges and critiques, as well as
> contributes to ongoing international debates on the practice and
> ethics of overseas medical research. Taking inspiration from
> ongoing attempts to confront the dilemmas and challenges of public
> health research under adverse economic and political conditions, as
> well as from ethnographic studies of the mundane realities of
> everyday research practices, we want to engage an open debate about
> the ethics of medical science in the broadest possible sense.
>
> The seminar is directed both at social anthropologists and
> historians specifically interested in medical science and
> technology, development and policy, or (late) modernity and
> capitalism, and at social scientists, philosophers and medically
> qualified scholars interested in `bioethics´ and the politics of
> medicine. While the focus of the course will be on medical science
> in economically deprived societies and many examples will be taken
> from Africa, the aim is to situate research ethics within a wider
> historical and political and economic frame. Thus the course should
> be of interest also to those studying medical science and/or
> bioethics in `developed´ countries. Both theory-driven approaches
> to science and social critique, and professionally and politically
> committed viewpoints will be present in the coursework, as well as,
> we hope, among the participants.
>
>
> -- Tron Harald Torneby Senior Executive Officer
>
>
> Faculty of Social Sciences University of Oslo P.O.Box 1084 Blindern
> N-0317 Oslo Norway
>
>
> Phone: +47 22 85 44 49
>
> ************************************ Oslo Summer School in
> Comparative Social Sciences Studies http://www.sv.uio.no/oss/
> index.html ************************************
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