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Dear Medsocnews subscribers,
Please find below details of an event that may be of interest:
*The Cultural Life of Smart Drugs: An Interdisciplinary Workshop*
Centre for Medical Humanities, University of Leeds
18 May 2016, 2-4pm
*I like now to think of the Obetrol and other subtypes of speed as more of
a kind of signpost or directional sign, pointing to what might be possible
if I could become more aware and alive in daily life.*
David Foster Wallace, *The Pale King* (2011)
*With the growth of a culture of ‘working extremely’, the boundaries
between what is seen as ‘normal’ enhancement activities, for example,
drinking coffee, and what would have been seen as ‘pathological’ or
‘asocial’ activities, such as drug-taking, are renegotiated.*
Brian Bloomfield and Karen Dale, ‘Fit for Work? Redefining Normal and
Extreme through Human Enhancement Technologies’, *Organization*, 22.4 (2015)
From the blockbuster film *Limitless *to a special report in the *Observer*,
the public ear is increasingly attuned to debates about smart drugs:
medications used by students and workers to boost mental performance. Drugs
like Adderall (usually prescribed for ADHD) and Modafinil (a treatment for
narcolepsy) have gained a reputation as neuro-enhancers. The practice of
‘cosmetic pharmacology’ disrupts many of the binaries that structure
dominant understandings of health, illness and disability. Are smart drugs
forms of treatment, enhancement, or both? Are they changing ways of
working, or expectations of workers? How have they been represented in
novels and films? Join a group of researchers from the fields of
literature, social policy, and cultural history to discuss these questions
and more.
*Speakers*
Ashley Bullard - *Governing the Potential for Perfection*
Hallvard Haug - *All* *Enhancement is Moral Enhancement*
Sophie Jones - *Stimulating Contemporary Literature*
Stuart Murray - *Disability and the Posthuman: Extension and Augmentation*
The event is free, but participants are asked to register as soon as
possible.
Please email Sophie Jones at [log in to unmask] to secure your place.
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Kevin Matthew Jones
PhD Student
Department of Philosophy, History of Science and Religious Studies
University of Leeds,
Woodhouse Lane,
Leeds, LS2 9JT
07926 300 917
@screenedversion
www.leeds.academia.edu/KevinJones
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