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Dear colleagues, there are a few more days to submit your abstract for this 4S panel . We look forward to hearing from you! *4S 2017 CFP: Making Medical Innovation Ethical* August 30 – September 2, 2017 Boston, Massachusetts, USA Organized by the Science, Technology, and Medicine section of the Society for Medical Anthropology New medical technologies often challenge and remake frameworks for evaluating the ethics of biomedical procedures. This panel, organized by the Science, Technology, and Medicine section of the Society for Medical Anthropology, seeks to deepen the conversation about what happens when new medical tools come up against existing ethical sensibilities. While many experts, patient groups, and media observers believe that medical innovation will open up human bodies to longer, better life spans and a wider variety of sensations and experiences, other constituencies worry about how new gadgets perpetuate patterns of unequal access to medical care. What social, political, and technical understandings of technological innovation underwrite such orientations, and what other responses are possible? Furthermore, to what extent is the development of such technologies the purview of elites, and to what extent do women, people with disabilities, people of color, queer and gender non-conforming people, people at the margins of the economy, and experts situated beyond established global centers of power actively intervene upon their design and use? What is at stake when bodies saved or enhanced by emerging technologies encounter established ethical norms in the laboratory, the research clinic, the maker space, the hospital, and the street? What sorts of controversies about evidence of efficacy and responsible use allow us to witness the (re)configuration of ethical frameworks for new medical technologies? We invite papers with an ethnographic grounding focused on any geographic location that explore the diverse uses, effects, and conditions of development of medical technologies. Please submit abstracts of 250 words or less to Elena Sokolova ( [log in to unmask]), Tanja Ahlin ([log in to unmask]), and Danya Glabau ([log in to unmask]) by noon EST on February 19, 2017 to ensure time for review and submission of the panel. -- <http://uni-heidelberg.academia.edu/TanjaAhlin> Tanja Ahlin <http://www.uva.nl/en/about-the-uva/organisation/staff-members/content/a/h/t.ahlin/t.ahlin.html>, PhD candidate University of Amsterdam Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research (AISSR) #Ageing and #Technology: Whose concerns? <http://allegralaboratory.net/ageing-and-technology-whose-concerns> Slam that #Ethnography! <http://allegralaboratory.net/slam-that-ethnography-introduction/> To create is to live twice. (A. Camus) Our identities are the style by which we procure love. (R. Q. Telfer) ************************************************************* * Anthropology-Matters Mailing List * http://www.anthropologymatters.com * * A postgraduate project comprising online journal, * * online discussions, teaching and research resources * * and international contacts directory. * * To join this list or to look at the archived previous * * messages visit: * * http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/Anthropology-Matters.HTML * * If you have ALREADY subscribed: to send a message to all * * those currently subscribed to the list,just send mail to: * * [log in to unmask] * * * * Enjoyed the mailing list? Why not join the new * * CONTACTS SECTION @ www.anthropologymatters.com * * an international directory of anthropology researchers * * To unsubscribe: please log on to jiscmail.ac.uk, and * * go to the 'Subscriber's corner' page. * * ***************************************************************