Futures past and present: hopes and fears and the history
of antibiotic resistance
Oslo, April 22-23, 2013
Antibiotic resistance is today acknowledged as one of the
greatest challenges for modern medicine.
Dystopic visions are prevalent, the fear of a future epidemic for which
no treatment is available widespread, and
terms such as “superbugs”, confer a special agency to multiresistant
microbes. In other areas of medicine, the future is defined in opposition to
the past as the “place” where solutions are realized, presence manifested, and
wrongs righted”. However, in the treatment of infectious disease it is the past
which has these glorious futures (”magic bullet”, ”golden age of medicine)”.
Hopes or fears for a future do not only describe
expectations, they are also part of the way these futures (our present) are
brought into being.
They are performative in the sense that they mobilize the
interest of allies and define political agendas, and therefore particularly
interesting to study. However, they are largely unexplored as such in the
history of medicine. This conference intends to explore the changing
expectations of antibiotics over time. It will explore past (and some
present) dreams, hopes and fears for the future, in the
clinic, in politics, and in the laboratory settings.
Monday April 22nd
1000: Anne Kveim
Lie (Oslo): Exploring past and present futures: opening and welcome
1030-1130: Agricultural past and present futures
Ulrike
Thoms (Berlin); Antibiotics, Agriculture and Political Agendas. Past, Present and Future of German
Agricultural Policy and its Impact on Strategies against Microbiological Resistance
Claas
Kirchhelle (Oxford): Utilizing resistance. Agricultural antibiotics, public
anxiety, and expert empowerment in Britain (1953-2003)
1130-1200: Discussion
1200-1300: Lunch
1300-1430: Clinical past and present futures
Scott
Podolsky (Harvard) Antibiotic Anxieties: Therapeutic Dystopias and the Framing of Antibiotic Reform, 1948-2013
Morten
Lindbæk (Oslo): Negotiating futures: working with use of antibiotics and
antibiotic resistance in community medicine
1430-1500: Coffee
1500-1600: Flurin
Condreau (Zürich): Controlling fears: Hospitals and infection (control) in Britain 1860-1960
Quentin
Ravelli (Paris): Knowledge without power: multi-resistance from global
consciousness to local helplessness
1600-1630: Discussion
1900: Dinner
Tuesday April 23th
0900-1030: Past and present
futures of the pharmaceutical industry
Maria
Jesus Santesmases (Madrid) Expectations fulfilled: Inventing a Spanish antibiotic 1959-1975
Christoph
Gradmann (Oslo): A future for a molecule: inventing combination therapy for
tuberculosis 1940-1960?
Amund
Pedersen (Oslo): Mobilizing hope in the midst of fear: negotiating penicillin production and distribution in
Norway
1030-1130: Discussion
and coffee break
1130-1230: Public health past and present futures
Anne
Kveim Lie (Oslo): A battle of futures:
dystopias and utopias in drug regulation policies and practices in
Norway
Bård
Hobæk (Oslo): Dystopic visions and restrictive practice: The Norwegian “clause
of need” in practice
1230-1330: Lunch
1330-1430: Dag
Berild (Oslo): Apocalyptic scenarios:
effective means of prevention or scare propaganda?
Siri
Jensen (Oslo): Different expectations for the future? Cultural factors and the
prescription and consumption of antibiotics.
1430: Discussion and Coffee
Concluding comment
1530-1615: Robert
Bud (London)
1630-1730: Final
discussion
1900: Dinner
Organization:
Anne Kveim Lie (ahlie@medisin.uio.no)
Contact:
Amund Pedersen (amund.pedersen@medisin.uio.no)
Attendance: Open for all (no conference fee). Please
register by April 12th to (amund.pedersen@medisin.uio.no)
Venue:
Radisson Blu Scandinavia Hotel
Holbergs gate 30, 0165 OSLO
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