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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Posted Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:46:37 This message was forwarded through MEDSOCNEWS. If you wish to make an announcement or publicise an event then please send the text to: [log in to unmask] +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ An event in the What is Medicine? seminar series, organised by the Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process, Goldsmiths University of London. Annemarie Mol Thursday 6 November, 4-6pm Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre Ben Pimlott Building Goldsmiths, University of London This event is free - all are welcome. Please follow this link for directions to Goldsmiths: <http://www.gold.ac.uk/campus-map/> Annemarie Mol is Socrates Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Twente. She has published The Body Multiple. Ontology in Medical Practice; co-edited Differences in Medicine (with Marc Berg) and Complexities (with John Law); and authored and co-authored a variety of articles on bodies, techniques and spatialities. Her new book, The Logic of Care, is published in 2008 by Routledge. In the social sciences, medicine has figured for decades as something to criticise. It deserved to be unmasked as (behind its helping face) it was really a matter of social control, or a mode of governing through discipline rather than punishment, or otherwise a place where doctors hold power over patients. These days, however, it is time to do something different. No, the point is not to be a better realist and to neutrally (rather than critically) describe medicine as it is. Instead, medicine deserves help. It is in urgent need of words that articulate its specificity in such a way that health care does not get completely colonised by (the logic of) the market (where doctors have products to sell to their customers), the state (that makes laws configuring patients as citizens), the protocol (that presumes that facts precede decisions, which precede actions, which precede evaluations), epidemiology (or rather the version of epidemiology that takes individuals to compose collectives), ethics (in as far as it separates deliberation from practice) and other rationalist endeavours. In my recent book The Logic of Care I have tried to provide such words and to articulate some of medicine's tinkering techniques for living with fragile bodies, unruly diseases and unpredictable technologies in complex daily lives. The case that I analysed is that of diabetes care. This allows me to now take up the question of your seminar series 'What is medicine?' as if it has an answer. Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process Department of Sociology Goldsmiths, University of London New Cross, London SE14 6NW Tel: +44 (0)207 919 7731 Fax: +44 (0)207 919 7713 ********************************************************************** 1. For general enquires or problems with the list or to CHANGE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS send a message to: [log in to unmask] 2. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the following message: set medsocnews nomail 3. To resume email from the list, send the following message: set medsocnews mail 4. To leave MedSocNews, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message (leave the subject line blank and do not include a signature): leave medsocnews 5. To join or subscribe to MedSocNews, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message (leave the subject line blank and do not include a signature): SUBSCRIBE medsocnews firstname lastname 6. Further information about the medsocnews discussion list (including list archive and how to subscribe to or leave the list) can be found at the list web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medsocnews.html **********************************************************************