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> Labour, Value & Experiment: Anthropological Reflections on
> Transnational Medicine
> 1-Day Workshop, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
> Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
> Free to attend, but please book ([log in to unmask]) as
> places are limited
>
> João Biehl, Marie De Cenival, Alice Desclaux, Wenzel Geissler, Ann
> Kelly, Massimilano Mollona, Linsey McGoey, Doreen Montag, Adriana
> Petryna, Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Richard Rottenburg, Ayo Walhberg,
> and Catherine Will
>
> A clinical trial consists of a diverse range of intellectual,
> practical and affective labour performed by subjects, fieldworkers
> and staff, investigators. Though the ethics of research has been
> the subject of much academic and scholarly debate, the social
> texture of clinical participation is often left unexplored.
>
> This workshop brings together anthropologists and activists to
> reflect on the different modalities of labour in the context of
> transnational biosciences and global public health. Drawing from
> empirical experiences, our aim is to develop a theoretical
> framework that can take account for how the work of those involved
> in clinical research relates to the medical knowledge they produce.
> Some of the questions that will guide discussion:
>
> What are the different spaces, timeframes, modes of agency that
> underpin the 'work' of giving blood as opposed to that required to
> analyse its content? What rights and responsibilities are
> articulated through the practice of knowledge production and how
> have they changed? How does the epistemic worth of a project - in
> terms of research outcomes, publications, grants and scientific
> careers - relate to the potential commercial value of medical
> products, the economic potential large scale trials bring to the
> countries in which they are conducted, and the public good of
> securing health? What purchase does the concept of class have in
> the in the context of transnational scientific inquiry? What are
> the political (both little p and big P) dimensions of transnational
> scientific inquiry and to what shape of advanced liberalism given
> to the representative character of the sample?
>
> Organized by Doreen Montag, Ann Kelly, and Wenzel Geissler
>
> For further information and to book your place, please email
> Linda.armafio.lshmt.ac.uk.
>
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