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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Posted Thu, 3 Dec 2015 15:00:39 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] You can follow us on twitter @MedSocNews +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Members of the list may be interested in the following call for abstracts to the following open track at 4S/EASST, which will be in Barcelona next summer. Antagonists, Servants, Companions: the Sciences, Technologies and Politics of Microbial Entanglements How are microbes and antimicrobial technologies represented, erased, engineered or (re)imagined in scientific work, technological interventions and public and policy developments today and in the past? Media-stories of superbugs are common, and everyday life includes a range of mundane activities to eliminate, contain or otherwise keep microbes at bay. Many socio-technical arrangements for managing human entanglements with microbes remain hidden from view (e.g., routine uses of microbicides and antibacterials; industrial engineering/use of bacteria), though occasionally surfacing as objects of political and economic concern (e.g., prophylactic use of antibiotics in farming). But alongside practices in which microbes are cast as antagonist or servant in human life, microbes are increasingly framed as companion species, or, in terms of the ‘commons’. Scientists are developing new collaborations to study bacterial communities in human bodies and in the environment, exploring their health-preserving role; how antimicrobial-resistant genes are expressed and selected; and the relationship between ‘’good’/’bad’ bacteria. Antibiotics are described as global public goods and humans called upon to conserve them and learn to live with bacteria. At the same time microbiology and new forms of bio-prospecting are celebrated as sources of economic value and novel therapies. We invite papers that explore the nature of and tensions within/across these collectives in different times and places. Papers may engage with, for e.g., microbiome research and therapy; antimicrobial resistance and stewardship; One-health; environmental pollution and antimicrobial resistance; search for new antibiotics or accounts of the old. Papers engaging across STS perspectives on the environment and/or health/medicine are welcome. Abstract submission should open shortly on the conference website http://www.sts2016bcn.org and will close on 21st February 2016. Convenors: Sujatha Raman, Catherine Will, Kate Weiner and Shirlene Badger ********************************************************************** 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 **********************************************************************