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An event in the What is Medicine? seminar series, organised by the Centre
for the Study of Invention and Social Process, Goldsmiths University of
London.
Annemarie Mol
Thursday 6 November, 4-6pm
Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre
Ben Pimlott Building
Goldsmiths, University of London
This event is free - all are welcome. Please follow this link for
directions to Goldsmiths:
<http://www.gold.ac.uk/campus-map/>
Annemarie Mol is Socrates Professor of Political Philosophy at the
University of Twente. She has published The Body Multiple. Ontology in
Medical Practice; co-edited Differences in Medicine (with Marc Berg) and
Complexities (with John Law); and authored and co-authored a variety of
articles on bodies, techniques and spatialities. Her new book, The Logic of
Care, is published in 2008 by Routledge.
In the social sciences, medicine has figured for decades as something to
criticise. It deserved to be unmasked as (behind its helping face) it was
really a matter of social control, or a mode of governing through
discipline rather than punishment, or otherwise a place where doctors hold
power over patients. These days, however, it is time to do something
different. No, the point is not to be a better realist and to neutrally
(rather than critically) describe medicine as it is. Instead, medicine
deserves help. It is in urgent need of words that articulate its
specificity in such a way that health care does not get completely
colonised by (the logic of) the market (where doctors have products to sell
to their customers), the state (that makes laws configuring patients as
citizens), the protocol (that presumes that facts precede decisions, which
precede actions, which precede evaluations), epidemiology (or rather the
version of epidemiology that takes individuals to compose collectives),
ethics (in as far as it separates deliberation from practice) and other
rationalist endeavours. In my recent book The Logic of Care I have tried to
provide such words and to articulate some of medicine's tinkering
techniques for living with fragile bodies, unruly diseases and
unpredictable technologies in complex daily lives. The case that I analysed
is that of diabetes care. This allows me to now take up the question of
your seminar series 'What is medicine?' as if it has an answer.
Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process
Department of Sociology
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross, London SE14 6NW
Tel: +44 (0)207 919 7731
Fax: +44 (0)207 919 7713
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