4S/EASST Open panel final call: Disease and health in humans and nonhumans
Call for abstracts for an open panel at at the upcoming 4S/EASST conference in Copenhagen, October 17-20, 2012: http://4sonline.org/meeting
Disease and health in humans and nonhumans
The past twenty years have seen a series of disease crises, both acute and chronic, which have highlighted the entangled nature of relations between humans and nonhumans (with both other animals and wider environments). Such incidents have included the SARS, avian and swine influenza outbreaks, and the related possibilities of global pandemics; but also more familiar, chronic and re-emerging disease problems such as tuberculosis. In response to these events, as well as the potential implications of ongoing environmental change for disease risks, the “One World, One Medicine, One Health” approach has rapidly gained visibility in the worlds of public health, medical, biological and veterinary sciences, promoting communication and research collaboration across these specialisms. However, at present it is unclear how such a movement will engage with the variety of research, clinical, communicative and knowledge building practices involved in these disciplines, nor indeed varying understandings of the categories ‘health’ and ‘disease’. This panel invites papers addressing the broad theme of disease and/or health across humans and nonhumans, asking, for example, how research and practice across these domains has come together (or been split apart) at what times and places, and under what circumstances? Case study, media, practice or theoretically based work will all be welcomed. Further to this, how can STS approaches be best applied in this domain, and to what end?
For further information, please contact Dr. Angela Cassidy, Imperial College London: angela.cassidy@imperial.ac.uk
The past twenty years have seen a series of disease crises, both acute and chronic, which have highlighted the entangled nature of relations between humans and nonhumans (with both other animals and wider environments). Such incidents have included the SARS, avian and swine influenza outbreaks, and the related possibilities of global pandemics; but also more familiar, chronic and re-emerging disease problems such as tuberculosis. In response to these events, as well as the potential implications of ongoing environmental change for disease risks, the “One World, One Medicine, One Health” approach has rapidly gained visibility in the worlds of public health, medical, biological and veterinary sciences, promoting communication and research collaboration across these specialisms. However, at present it is unclear how such a movement will engage with the variety of research, clinical, communicative and knowledge building practices involved in these disciplines, nor indeed varying understandings of the categories ‘health’ and ‘disease’. This panel invites papers addressing the broad theme of disease and/or health across humans and nonhumans, asking, for example, how research and practice across these domains has come together (or been split apart) at what times and places, and under what circumstances? Case study, media, practice or theoretically based work will all be welcomed. Further to this, how can STS approaches be best applied in this domain, and to what end?
For further information, please contact Dr. Angela Cassidy, Imperial College London: angela.cassidy@imperial.ac.uk
Submission
Please submit abstracts of 250 words maximum (to panel #4 “Disease and health in humans and nonhumans”) online here: http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ssss/4s12/
*Deadline March 18 2012*
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Research Associate: One Medicine? Investigating human and animal disease, 1850-2015
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHoSTM),
Imperial College London
email: angela.cassidy@gmail.com; angela.cassidy@imperial.ac.uk
web: http://imperial.academia.edu/AngelaCassidy
Research Associate: One Medicine? Investigating human and animal disease, 1850-2015
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHoSTM),
Imperial College London
email: angela.cassidy@gmail.com; angela.cassidy@imperial.ac.uk
web: http://imperial.academia.edu/AngelaCassidy