04.-07. September 2019: Vorträge von Andrea zur Nieden und Tino Plümecke auf der 4S-Konferenz in New Orleans

Auf der 4S-Konferenz der Society for Social Studies of Science in New Orleans hält Andrea zur Nieden einen Vortrag mit dem Titel “Race as a Technology in Medicine and Epidemiology: Contrasting Germany and the US”:

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… weiterlesen

Auch Tino Plümecke ist auf der 4S-Konferenz und hält folgenden Vortrag: „Critical Life Science Research on Human Diversity: Social Reflexivity as a Means for ‘Good Science’”:

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… weiterlesen