[With apologies for cross-posting]
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].
Book a place now through Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ethnographies-of-disease-stratification-understanding-novel-clinical-practices-and-their-social-tickets-57414178353
With best wishes,
Ignacia Arteaga
Cinzia Greco
Henry Llewellyn
Emily Ross
Julia Swallow
Cinzia Greco
Wellcome Trust Research Fellow
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM)
Room 2.70 Simon Building
University of Manchester
Website: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/cinzia.greco.html
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