October 28th – 29th 2016
McGill Faculty Club - 3450 McTavish
Friday, October 28th 2016
Opening Session: 2:00-2:15 p.m.
Dr. David Eidelman, Vice-Principal (Health Affairs) & Dean – Faculty of Medicine
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Session 1: 2:15-4:00 p.m.
Sharon Kaufman, Professor Emerita and Chair, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
Ordinary Medicine: Evidence, Experiments and the Tyranny of Standards
Keith Wailoo, Townsend Martin Professor of History and Public Affairs, Dept. of History and Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton University
Learning from Pain: Social Analysis and the Gatekeepers of Relief
Coffee Break: 4:00-4:15 p.m. - Foyer
Session 2: 4:15-6:00 p.m.
Junko Kitananka, Professor Department of Human Sciences, Keio University, Tokyo.
Psychiatric Screening for Secrets: A New Care of the Self in Japan
Dominique P. Béhague, Associate Professor of Medicine, Health and Society Vanderbilt University, Senior Lecturer King’s College London
Notes on the political and moral life of psychiatric epistemes in Southern Brazil: from the clinic to the longue durée
Saturday, October 29th 2016
Session 3: 09:00-10:45 a.m.
Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Biomedical Imaginaries: Translational Medicine in Comparative Perspective
Gil Eyal, Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, Columbia University
What are likely to be the looping effects of 'personalized' (or 'precision') medicine?
Coffee Break: 10:45-11:00 - Foyer
Session 4: 11:15-1:00
Shigahisa Kuriyama, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History, and Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University
Digital history and the depths of the forgotten past
Jeremy Greene, Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine, Elizabeth Treide and A. McGehee Harvey Chair in the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
The Analog Patient: Towards a Media History of Medicine
Lunch: 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Session 5: 2:00-3:45 p.m.
Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Anthropology and Global Health, École de Santé publique de l'Université de Montréal, Graduate Institute Geneva; Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris)
Of what is global health the symptom: authorization, value, and anticipation after Ebola
Nikolas Rose, Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Social Science, Health & Medicine, King’s College, University of London
From Social Studies OF Medicine to Social Science IN Medicine?
Closing remarks: 3:45 -4:15