Susanne Michl
Wednesday April 2nd, 2014 at 12:30 to 1:30 pm
3647 Peel Street, Seminar room 102
Abstract:
It has been fifteen years since the ‘new’ era of medicine was
proclaimed by two science journalists Robert Langreth and Michael
Waldholz in the Wall Street Journal. Since then, personalized medicine
(PM) has provided a powerful language through which significant change
in medical practice has been imagined and in which the interests of
various actors in politics, economics, science and patient organisation
seem to converge. Given that scholars associated with the social science
of technology have prioritized the role of expectation in the shaping
of new technologies, a historical perspective on current (and
futuristic) phenomena such as PM would, at first glance, seem
incongruous. Nevertheless, I would like to suggest and discuss two
areas in which a historical or a historically-informed analysis is
helpful: (1) analyzing and interrogating the construction of genealogies
of PM in medical literature by showing a specific way of connecting
past, present and future; (2) analyzing the continuing significance of
some longstanding patterns in the field of medical research and practice
(e.g. the focus on the biological individuality as a key category of
(bio-)medicine), and their influence on past visions of the medical
future.
Feel free to bring your lunch!
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