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From: "Emily Wentzell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: CfP EASST 2010: The ‘meaning’ and ‘doing’ of bodies and gender in
medicine and healthcare
From: Rainer Broemer <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CfP EASST 2010: The ‘meaning’ and ‘doing’ of bodies and
gender in medicine and healthcare
Call for Papers for a thematic track at the EASST Conference 2010:
The ‘meaning’ and ‘doing’ of bodies and gender in medicine and healthcare
Trent, Italy, 2-4 September 2010 (deadline: 15 March 2010)
The conference track will follow the development of thinking of and
talking about bodies doing things and creating meaning, through
individual and historical lifecycles experienced in broad medical
contexts. Thus, “bodily beings” are differently constituted in medical
schools, hospitals and surgeries, research labs and everyday living
environments, viewed through and connected to mechanical and
electronic appliances, inscribed with biomedical discourses and
socio-culturally based roles, such as gender, sex, race, impairment.
The human body can be viewed simultaneously as a substrate for
healthcare concerns and as an entity that acts and is enacted in the
varied practices of medical research and clinical care. In their
cultural variety, they are representing a “bodily-being-in-the-world”
(Haraway) as well as a “body multiple” (Mol): Human embodiment in
medicine is staged against a variety of backdrops, involving different
patients and families, doctors and carers, material and virtual macro-
and micro-anatomies in research and teaching, all playing different
interacting roles on the set. Medical education, itself a construct of
complex socio-cultural expectations of “good practice”, is but one
factor that shapes specific anticipations of “normal” bodies and
individual ‘health’ as a legitimating telos of intervention. Such
governance is typical, even in cases where the clinical significance
of a stated condition is far from consensual.
The track is designed particularly to introduce and explore new
conceptual, theoretical, and methodological perspectives from
different disciplines that help advance an understanding of the
complexity of ‘knowing’ and ‘doing’ bodies in medicine. Ensuing
discussions will therefore be of interest for a broad range of
disciplines, from medicine studies, medical anthropology and ethnology
to epistemology and ontology of the body, medical education and
medical humanities.
Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be sent by email (following
website instructions, to appear on http://www.easst.net/ ) by 15 March
2010.
Track co-ordinators would also like to remind readers of the still
open CfP for a themed issue of the journal “Medicine Studies”, under
the title “Dissecting Anatomy – historical, cultural and ethical
perspectives on teaching and research”, latest submission date: 10
January, 2010, see
http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=12454
The conversation started in the context of the journal is intended to
be continued at the congress in Trent in the second half of the year.
Alan Petersen is Discipline Convenor for Sociology at Monash
University, Melbourne, Australia. He is currently undertaking a study
‘Stem cell technologies: how scientists , policymakers, and other
stakeholders engage with the public’
(http://arts.monash.edu.au/sociology/staff/apetersen.php)
Samantha Regan de Bere is a lecturer at Peninsula College of Medicine
and Dentistry in Plymouth/Exeter/Truro, England. Her research is
concerned with understanding the impact of discursive systems of
governance on complex medical ‘texts’.
Antje Kampf is Associate Professor (“Juniorprofessor”) for gender
aspects of the history, philosophy and ethics of medicine at Johannes
Gutenberg University Mainz Medical Center, Germany. Her research
focuses on the historical epistemology and ontology of male bodies in
biomedicine(www.uni-mainz.de/FB/Medizin/Medhist/institut/mitarbeiter/antje_kampf_engl.php)
Rainer Brömer is lecturer (“wiss. Mitarbeiter”) at the Institute for
the History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine at Johannes Gutenberg
University Mainz Medical Center, Germany, jointly with the Institute
for Mathematics, History of Mathematics and Science Group. His main
interest regards the role of the body in human anatomy in the Ottoman
Empire, ca. 1600-1900, and more generally, the history, philosophy and
ethics of medicine in the Muslim world (www.rainer-broemer.name).
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