The deadline for abstracts submission for the workshop "Forging Science and
Medicine: Categories, Objects, Boundaries" (Universidad del Rosario, Bogota,
Colombia, August 28-29, 2014) is approaching (March 10).
A limited number of grants is available to assist participants in the workshop.
Further details can be found below.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Workshop: Forging Science and Medicine: Categories, Objects, Boundaries
Universidad del Rosario (Bogotá, Colombia), August 28-29, 2014.
This workshop aims to discuss historical cases dealing with the
co-construction of science (natural and social) and medicine in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. With the aim of circumventing
historical narratives that assume an a priori distinction between science
and medicine, this workshop seeks contributions which problematize the
alleged boundaries between them. We are particularly interested in
research that shows how historical actors’ categories and behaviours with
regard to what they do and define as pertaining to “science” and/or
“medicine”, contributed to the creation of new objects of enquiry,
technologies and specialties, or to the obsolescence of analogous
entities, previously standard. Moreover, the workshop will explore how
discussions and practices about the boundaries between science and
medicine, as defined by historical actors, have been shaped through
translational activities such as training, communication and policy
making. A sample of major questions addressed
by this workshop is:
• How have the holders of expert knowledge established boundaries between
science and medicine?
• How have the attributes of being “scientific” or pertaining to the
“medical” realm been used to make original knowledge claims?
• What are the spaces in which medicine and science are made to appear as
different or the same?
• What has been the discursive and practical role of conflict and
cooperation between science and medicine as defined by actors themselves?
• How have new objects of enquiry and technologies been built at the
crossroad of what contemporaries experienced as scientific and medical
endeavours?
• How have ideas of science and medicine and their boundaries been shaped by
training, communication and policy making?
The working languages of this workshop are English and Spanish.
A limited number of accommodation grants are available. Interested
applicants should submit a) an abstract (maximum 600 words) that describes
the content of the paper, the question it addresses, and the
historiographical contribution to the understanding of the historical
construction of the relations between science and medicine; b) a one page
CV resumé, including main publications.
Applications should be submitted to Monica Garcia
[log in to unmask] by March 10. Applicants will be notified of
the results of the application one week after the submission deadline.
Papers will be pre-circulated. The workshop organizers are committed to
see the papers published as an international journal special issue.
Organized by Mónica García, Stefan Pohl and Josep Simon (GESCTP,
Universidad del Rosario, www.gesctp.com)
This workshop is a continuation of the symposium Science X Medicine:
Promiscuous Objects, Entangled Problems held at the 24th International
Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine (Manchester, 2013).
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