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<br>Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science
<br>4S Sydney, August 29 - September 1, 2018
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<br>Open panel no. 82: Well years, good years, quality years - calibrations and
<br>aggregations of daily living
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<br>Throughout the world low fertility, ageing and chronic disease are
<br>transforming how health/care is organised and practiced. Healthcare programmes
<br>are being reconfigured to address the challenges of treating and managing long
<br>term conditions just as persons with chronic conditions, family members and
<br>loved ones grapple with daily tasks of (self-)care. In low fertility societies
<br>there are fewer young people to care for elders, who are increasingly living
<br>with various co-morbidities and may require assistance in their daily lives. A
<br>wealth of instruments, indices and scales have emerged which take daily living
<br>as their object. Despite their differences, their commonality lies in their
<br>normative differentiation of the activities of daily living along better-worse
<br>continuums. Certain ways of living are valued as of better (in terms of
<br>quality, fulfilment, life satisfaction, etc.), based largely on a person's
<br>functional ability, levels of experienced discomfort, and experiences of
<br>isolation. Contributors to this panel will critically examine how daily
<br>living, itself, has become the object of measurement as healthcare programmes,
<br>professionals, carers and patients seek to improve the daily lives of those
<br>living with chronic conditions. Ethnographic, policy-oriented and historical
<br>analyses of how daily living is made knowable and calculable on the one hand,
<br>and negotiated and tinkered with on the other, are welcome. The panel will
<br>contribute to STS scholarship on health metrics, health interventions and
<br>(self-)care and will further conceptual innovation at the nexus of medical
<br>anthropology, medical sociology and STS.
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<br>Convened by Ayo Wahlberg, Professor MSO, Department of Anthropology,
<br>University of Copenhagen; Katherine Kenny, Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
<br>School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales; Tiago Moreira,
<br>Professor of Sociology, School of Applied Social Sciences, Durham University;
<br>Jieun Lee, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology,
<br>University of Copenhagen
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<br>Submit your abstract here: https://4s2018sydney.org/accepted-open-panels-4s/
<br>Deadline: 1 February 2018
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<br>Ayo Wahlberg
<br>Professor MSO
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<br>Department of Anthropology
<br>University of Copenhagen
<br>ster Farimagsgade 5
<br>1353 Copenhagen K
<br>Denmark
<br>TEL +45 35 32 44 51
<br>ayo.wahlberg@anthro.ku.dk
<br>@ayo_wahlberg
<br>http://anthropology.ku.dk/ayowahlberg
<br>Latest publications: Selective Reproduction in the 21st
<br>Century,
<br>"The Vitality of
<br>Disease"
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