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One of these two postdoctoral RF positions at Birmingham, below, may be of interest to medical sociology/STS scholars - please circulate
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Prof Alex Faulkner, Sociology of Biomedicine & Healthcare Policy
Centre for Global Health Policy
School of Global Studies
University of Sussex BN1 9SR, UK
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From: Muireann Quigley [[log in to unmask]]
We are (re)advertising 2 postdoctoral research positions on the Wellcome Trust funded Everyday Cyborgs project. Potential applications please get in contact with Prog Quigley prior to applying ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>).
Deadline for applications: 2nd June 2019
Everyday cyborgs are persons with attached and implanted medical devices; e.g., joint replacements, pacemakers, insulin pumps, and limb prostheses. Increasingly, these devices are smart devices. They run software and have wifi capabilities. They collect, analyse, and transmit data. Because the law takes a bounded approach to person and objects, the integration of medical devices with persons creates unexpected practical, conceptual, and normative problems. This project, funded by the Wellcome Trust, aims to tackle these by challenging law’s boundary-work (e.g. between subject and object) and radically (re)imagining its approach to the assemblage of integrated persons and integrated goods.
Unanswered questions include:
1. Should internal medical devices which keep the person alive be viewed as part of the person or mere objects (or something else)?;
2. Is damage to neuro-prostheses personal injury or damage to property?;
3. Who ought to control/own the software in implanted medical devices?; and
4. How should the law deal with risks around unauthorised third party access and hacking?
Building on preliminary research, the project team will answer such questions, using written documents, interviews, and focus groups to better understand the challenges, and test a series of imagined legal futures to assess what is practically possible and suggest solutions. The project will investigate where and why boundaries occur, examine what the pitfalls and opportunities are when these are transgressed and dissolved, and go beyond the bounded selves conception of persons to develop a novel account of the everyday cyborg in law. The research will draw on literatures and methods from a range of disciplines, including law and policy, regulatory and governance studies, political theory, philosophy, sociology, and science and technology studies.
Both fellows will be expected to conduct original research, plan and coordinate research activities and programmes, publish the results of the research, supervise PhD students, and contribute to knowledge transfer, public engagement, or similar activities.
Candidates are expected to have a higher degree relevant to the research area or equivalent qualifications. An ability to work across disciplinary boundaries will be a distinct advantage.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Law)
Further info: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BRK822/postdoctoral-research-fellow-law
Apply: https://bit.ly/2UTEayG
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Socio-legal/Empirical)
Further info: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BRL607/postdoctoral-research-fellow-socio-legal-empirical
Apply: https://bit.ly/2LdlgTT
Kind Regards,
Muireann.
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Professor of Law, Medicine, & Technology
Birmingham Law School
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
B15 2TT
http://www.muireannquigley.com<http://www.muireannquigley.com/>
Twitter: @profmq @EverydayCyborgs
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