Tag Archives: STS

Repositioning health, illness and the body: the challenge of new theoretical approaches to medical anthropology (CfP, ASA14 Conference, Edinburgh, 19-22 June 2014)

Posted on November 28, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth ASA14 Decennial: Anthropology and Enlightenment 19-22 June 2014 The Surgeons’ Hall, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh Repositioning health, illness and the body: the challenge of new theoretical approaches to medical anthropology Convenors: Simon … Continue reading →

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Working together? STS, collaboration and (multi)disciplinarity (CfP, Conference, 2 December 2013, Sheffield)

Posted on October 22, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Researchers are warmly invited to the first conference supported by the British Sociological Association’s Science and Technology Studies (STS) Study Group, which will be held at the University of Sheffield on the 2nd December 2013. The aim of the event is … Continue reading →

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Introducing ‘Commonplaces’ – Somatosphere’s New Archive of Classical & Contemporary Sites in Medicine and Science

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Somatosphere and the Science, Technology, and Medicine Interest Group of the SMA are pleased to present a new online project — “Commonplaces,” developed and curated by Tomas Matza and Harris Solomon. “Commonplaces” will draw together a series of short entries (approximately 500-1000 words) from scholars on … Continue reading →

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Neural Initiatives: Neuropolitics, technoscience, and the dynamic brain (CFP, Postgraduate Conference, Urbana-Champaign, 21-23 February 2014)

Posted on October 20, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Neural Initiatives: Neuropolitics, technoscience, and the dynamic brain The INTERSECT Network for Neuro-Cultures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to invite presentation proposals for its Spring 2014 Graduate Student Conference, to take place on February 21st-23rd, 2014. The conference theme … Continue reading →

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Making Genomic Medicine – Three Postdoctoral Research Positions at Edinburgh

Posted on June 25, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

The University of Edinburgh seeks to appoint three postdoctoral Research Fellows to work in the Science, Technology and Innovation Studies subject group, on a four-year Wellcome Trust-funded project entitled “Making Genomic Medicine”. Under the leadership of Dr Steve Sturdy, the … Continue reading →

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Communicating Medical Materialities (Call for Participants, Workshop, Copenhagen, March 2013)

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Workshop on communicating medical materialities, 8-9 March 2013 Medical Museion, Copenhagen On the 8th-9th of march 2013, Medical Museion will host a workshop entitled ‘It’s Not What You Think – Communicating Medical Materialities’. The workshop builds from a central … Continue reading →