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Ethnographies of disease stratification: Understanding novel clinical practices and their consequences in contemporary cancer care
University of Cambridge, Friday 12th April 2019.
10.00am - 4.00pm (registration from 9.30am)
Free but ticketed
The biomedical ability to detect specific molecular features of tumours is driving clinical innovation towards more precise diagnoses and more effective treatments by way of “stratification”. These innovations inspire new hopes for more effective and targeted treatments with fewer side effects. However, they also provoke major dilemmas around individual and population-wide treatment decisions, equity of treatment access, and the social formations of care. Current approaches in cancer care thus re-articulate forms of biological and social stratification, with important implications for patient experience and biomedical knowledge.
This one day symposium brings together scholars from a range of social science disciplines to consider the social consequences of these innovations across a number of different sites around the world. Presentations will reflect on the ways in which contemporary oncology is becoming reconfigured at various levels by the practices of disease stratification and its promise of improved health outcomes for those affected by cancer. Further discussions throughout the day will be led by senior academics with expertise in historical and anthropological approaches to cancer:
Dr Sophie Day, Professor at Goldsmiths, University of London
Dr Maryon McDonald, Fellow at Robinson College, University of Cambridge
Dr Carsten Timmerman, Senior lecturer, University of Manchester
The event is free, but tickets must be booked in advance through Eventbrite. Limited bursaries are available for post-graduate students travelling from within the UK. Please contact us directly to request a bursary, outlining your research interest and approximate travel costs. Lunch and refreshments will be provided throughout the day.
This event is supported by the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness. For further information or to request a bursary, please contact Ignacia Arteaga at [log in to unmask]
See here for the day's schedule: https://goo.gl/oca6YM
Book a place now through Eventbrite: https://cancerstratificationsymposium.eventbrite.co.uk
With best wishes,
Ignacia Arteaga
Cinzia Greco
Henry Llewellyn
Emily Ross
Julia Swallow
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