Andrea zur Nieden and Tino Plümecke give a Talk at the 4S-Conference in New Orleans (4-7 September 2019)

Andrea zur Nieden talks on “Race as a Technology in Medicine and Epidemiology: Contrasting Germany and the US” at the 4S-Conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science in New Orleans:

The proposed paper intends to discuss how thinking race as a technology helps understanding the usage of visible and invisible racial and ethnic categories in medical and epidemiological research. Drawing on fieldwork in Germany it will especially focus on the differences between clinical/epidemiological research and health politics in the US and Germany… continue

Tino Plümecke talks on „Critical Life Science Research on Human Diversity: Social Reflexivity as a Means for ‘Good Science’” at the 4S-Conference:

My contribution focuses on the question of forms of reflexivity in life science research dealing with categories of race/ethnicity and sex/gender. In particular, I focus on projects that distance themselves from the common paradigms in the respective fields of research and use innovative non-binary and more fluid or context-specific categorizations of human biological diversity. Several of the actors I examined describe themselves as reflexive, responsible, and as at least partially critical… continue