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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Posted Mon, 11 Feb 2019 17:29:08 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 the BSA MedSoc Group on @BSAMedsoc You can follow the BSA funded blog on health in times of austerity on @Cost_ofLiving +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ***Apologies for cross posting*** Please join us for the second of our LSHTM Medical Anthropology seminars this term on Tuesday 19th February from 4-5pm in the Jenny Roberts room, LSHTM, Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9SH. Medical Anthropology Research Seminar Series, Spring 2019 Tuesday 19 February 2019 - Prof Jeannette Pols (Socrates professor 'Social Theory, Humanism and Materialities', University of Amsterdam). 'Making sense with numbers. Unraveling practices of self-quantification<https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/events/jeannette-pols-making-sense-numbers-unraveling-practices-self-quantification>' 4-5pm in the Jenny Roberts room, LSHTM, 15-17 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9SH. Abstract: One of the conceptual tools for policy makers in the west to imagine a retreating welfare state is the notion of self-management. Individuals should manage their own health and the health of those near and dear in order to alleviate the pressure on professional caregivers. This would make care more efficient and of higher quality, as, so the policy makers argue, self-management is what people want. In this presentation I will discuss a particular branch on the self-management tree: self tracking, or self quantification, using an empirical ethics approach that studies values and their workings in practice. By using health apps to measure and analyse data about 'what we do' and to what end, the optimistic idea is that individuals can -and will- change their life styles. Health is an offer one simply cannot refuse. But what kind of 'ethico-psychological subjects' emerge in actual practices of self-tracking? The ethico-psychological subject gets a description in terms of how it how it acts as well as made to act. It is a 'subject explained through outer factors (as an object of the life sciences), but also an object actively shaping itself (as in the humanities). How do people make sense of numbers, and how do numbers make sense of them? The dream of the prevention optimists will not hold, but vistas are opened up on the variety of ways in which people may live with self-quantifications. This lecture is funded by the LSHTM Anthropology and Sociology Hub<https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres-projects-groups/anthropology-sociology-hub> UPCOMING SEMINARS: Tuesday 19th March - Prof James Fairhead (University of Sussex) 'Is the Ebola reservoir in people? A critique of the idea of 'Patient Zero' and 'spillover' in the narration and comparative analysis of Ebola epidemic origins, and its implications.' 4-5pm in the Jenny Roberts room, LSHTM, 15-17 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9SH. For more information please contact one of the organisers: Annelieke Driessen ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) Fred Martineau ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) Rebecca Lynch ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) Melissa Parker ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) Annelieke Driessen Research Fellow (Medical Anthropology) http://blogs.lshtm.ac.uk/formsofcare/ London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine 15-17 Tavistock Place, room 110, London, WC1H 9SH Tel: 020 7958 8295 ext. 8295 ********************************************************************** 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 **********************************************************************