Conf: Medical Imaging and Philosophy, Ulm (Germany), 21-22 May

1ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MEDICAL IMAGING AND PHILOSOPHY: CHALLENGES,
REFLECTIONS AND ACTIONS

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May 21st/22nd

Host:

Institute for the History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine, Ulm University
Centre Medicine and Society, Ulm University

Location:

Villa Eberhardt

Ulm University

Heidenheimer Straße 80
D-89075 Ulm

Germany


Contact:

Sebastian Keßler

Centre Medicine and Society
Universität Ulm
Frauensteige 6 (Michelsberg)
D-89075 Ulm

Tel.: +49 731 500 39915



Email: sebastian.kessler@uni-ulm.de

URL:


http://www.uni-ulm.de/med/med-medgeschichte/oeffentliche-veranstaltungen/tagungen.html
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Announcement:

Imaging plays a prominent role in contemporary medical research and
practice. This conference focusses on three related aspects of imaging the
human body, demonstrating a range of cultural, historical and scientific
concerns:

* Scientific representations

* Ontologies

* Ethics

It is the aim of the conference to reconstruct methods of diagnostic
knowledge and their social, anthropological and technological origins and
future implications. Among the topics to be discussed are:

* the production of knowledge using imaging techniques, and the
commensurability of that knowledge across imaging modalities;

* experimental systems and the role of data and data collection for medical
diagnosis and communication;

* the role of formal ontologies in representation and communication with
medical images;

* norms of health and disease and the understanding of body (and mind) as
they are shaped by imaging technologies;

* the interdependence of technology, medicine, economics and engineering.

This wide-ranging conference will include plenary lectures from eminent
scholars in the field, panel seminars, author-meets-critics sessions,
outreach activities, and social receptions.


Programme:

Friday May 21st, 2010

14:00-14:15:
Welcome
Heiner Fangerau (Ulm), Rethy Chhem (Vienna), Santiago Sia (Dublin)

14:15-14:45:
Opening lecture: Medical Imaging: Pictures and the Power of Evidence
Heiner Fangerau (Ulm), Irmgard Müller (Bochum)


14:45–16:45:
Session 1: Influence of different media of medical imaging on medical
evidence

- A Pathway to Pathways and Their Visualisations
Ludger Jansen (Rostock)

- Medical Imaging and Contemporary Art: Redefinition of the Human Body
Katsiaryna Laryionava (Aachen)

- The anatomical waxes in the early stage of smallpox vaccination
Fabio Zampieri (Padova)

- Early Film in Science and Medicine and the Experience of Time: Revisiting
Bergson's Philosophy in the Context of the Early Applications of Moving
Image Technologies
Martha Blassnigg (Plymouth)

17:15 – 19:45:
Session 2: The role of the image

- Keynote: Looking Behind the Image: Philosophical and Ethical Issues in
Medical Imaging
Santiago Sia (Dublin)


-Medical Imagery and the Ethics of Algorithms
Felicitas Kraemer, Kees van Overveld, Martin Peterson (Eindhoven)

- Why Images?
Megan Delehanty (Calgary)

- Is Epistemic Causality Relevant to Philosophy of Medical Imaging and
Philosophy of Medicine?
Rainhard Z. Bengez (München)

- Manifesting the Inner: Jastrow’s Automatograph and the inscription of
thought
Hannah Drayson (Plymouth)


Saturday May 22nd, 2010

10:00–12:00:
Session 3: Imaging constructs of physiology and pathophysiology

-Keynote: Norms of Health and Disease and the Understanding of the Body as
Shaped by Imaging Technologies
Shih-chang (Ming) Wang (Sydney)

- Pictorial Turns in Embryology: From Fetal Positions to the Human Egg
Ortrun Riha (Leipzig)

- Invisible Waves of Technology: Ultrasound and the Making of Fetal Images
Sonia Kiran Meyers (Madison)

- Ethical aspects of neuroimaging in psychiatry
Ilona Vera Szlezak (Freiburg)

13:30 – 15:00:
Session 4: Formalized ontologies in imaging

- Keynote: Philosophy of Radiology: The Ontological Challenge. The role of
formal ontologies in representation and communication with medical images.
James A. Overton (London, Ontario)

- (Im)mutable diagnostic technologies: the case of computed tomography
EunJeong Ma (Seoul)

- ‘Sehkollektive’ - Diagnostic Analysis of CT- Visualizations
Kathrin Friedrich (Köln)

- Image - Body - Knowledge. An interdisciplinary project on the critical
appraisal of images
Rainer-M.E. Jacobi (Essen), Sarah Sandfort (Bochum)

15:30 – 18:00:
Session 5: Imaging the brain

- Keynote: Medical Images: Imaging or Imagining?
Rethy Chhem (Vienna)

- NEUROIMAGING: Framing disorders, subjects, and identities from the 1980’s
to the present date
Simone do Vale (Rio de Janeiro)

- Reading in the Brain: From Medical Neuroimaging to Mind-Reading
Frederic Gilbert (Halifax, Canada)

- Functional neuroimaging of brain and mind
Kirsten Brukamp (Münster/Osnabrück)

- Imaging Pain: How Brain Ontology and Pain Representation Can Interact
Chuanfei Chin (Oxford)

18:00 – 18:30:
Summarising Comment: Retrospect and Perspectives and closing remarks
Heiner Fangerau (Ulm), Shih-chang (Ming) Wang (Sydney), Rethy Chhem
(Vienna), James Overton (London, Ontario)

The Conference will be held in English.

Thank you for helping/posting!

With kind regards


Arno Görgen

Wissenschaftliche Dokumentation

Zentrum Medizin und Gesellschaft

Universität Ulm

Frauensteige 6

89075 Ulm

Tel: 0731 500-39914

Fax: 0731 500-39902

http://www.uni-ulm.de/med/med-zemege.html

Researcher

Centre of Medicine and Society

Ulm University

Frauensteige 6

D-89075 Ulm

Tel: +49 731 500 39914

Fax: +49 731 500 39902

http://www.uni-ulm.de/med/med-zemege.html

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