CfP: HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES THEME @ 18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS BIOLOGY
This year’s International Conference on Systems Biology, to be held in
Lyon, between October 28th and November 1st, 2018, includes a theme on
Humanities and Social Science Approaches. This is an ideal opportunity
for engaging with scientists working in a very broad range of systems
biology and systems medicine areas. Our keynote speaker is Professor
Barbara Prainsack of the University of Vienna, whose recent book,
Personalized Medicine: Empowered Patients in the 21st Century? (NYUP,
2017) demonstrates the extent to which the programme of personalised
medicine is social and political as much as it is scientific.
We
invite papers addressing the philosophy, history or sociology of
systems biology, raising issues of epistemology or ethics. In
particular, we are interested in papers that aside from bringing new
insights to the field, will also open or continue conversations with
scientists working in the field.