Message posted on 17/01/2025
CfA | At the borders of biomedicine | 10th STS Italia Conference - MILANO 11-13 June 2025
Dear colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to submit abstract proposals to our panel *"**At the borders of biomedicine: how health and care are reconfigured as do-able problems beyond biomedical expertise* *" *(Panel n. 25 - panel description below) at the 10th STS Italia Conference “Technoscience for Good: Designing, Caring, and Reconfiguring", Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, 11-13 June 2025. Follow this link: https://stsitalia.org/submission-2025/ and submit a title, an abstract of up to 500 words, and keywords *_by 3 February 2025_* (this deadline will NOT be extended). If you have any questions please email myself at . Best wishes, Stefano Crabu, on behalf of the co-convenors (Caragh Brosnan, Federico Neresini and Pia Vuolanto) ------------- *Panel 25* /*At the borders of biomedicine: how health and care are reconfigured as do-able problems beyond biomedical expertise*/ In contemporary societies, neoliberal economic arrangements and the rise of consumerism have significantly reshaped cultural expectations and representations of the body, framing health as a highly individualized and morally charged responsibility. Individuals are expected to seek knowledge, exercise moral judgment, participate in healthcare decisions, and minimize health risks through personal choices. This emphasis on personal responsibility is reflected not only in public health discourses but also in knowledge domains that sit at the epistemic boundaries of biomedicine. Consequently, it is important to explore how these new public health discourses have created space for alternative practices—such as meditation, nutritional therapies, dance therapy, and healing methods drawn from naturopathy and homeopathy—to enter the healthcare arena. These practices are supported by an increased emphasis on individual choice, therapeutic pluralism, and associated funding packages. Approaches that encompass health and wellness practices that lie outside and are not accepted within biomedicine, otherwise labeled as “refused knowledge”, do not simply reflect an alleged opposition to biomedical advice stemming from health illiteracy or distrust of medical practitioners. Instead, they signify a demand from citizens, consumers, and patient advocacy groups to become more informed and accountable in their relationship with biomedicine. This trend involves “opening the black box” of biomedicine, critically assessing its inner workings. Further research is needed to explore how alternative knowledge systems challenge biomedical boundaries and contribute to shaping contemporary understandings of health and care. This panel aims to bring together multidisciplinary STS research to deepen our understanding of the social and epistemic conditions under which health and care are discursively and materially enacted as “do-able problems” at the margins of biomedical science. It seeks to analyze the extent to which such enactment may reduce individuals’ reliance on prevailing medical practitioners by promoting activities such as self-care, health enhancement, chronic disease management, and the acquisition of diagnostic and therapeutic skills, thereby increasingly shifting medical expertise and responsibility to the individual. We invite scholars and practitioners to submit theoretical, empirical, and/or methodological contributions that explore how forms of health and care emerging at the boundaries of science reshape biomedical authority while becoming entangled in contemporary politics of life. We especially encourage a focus on the intersection of knowledge-making practices and individualization processes, and how these processes are enacted in relation to bodily experiences, health, and care management, particularly with regard to the emphasis on personal and moral responsibility for health. Contributors may focus on the following dimensions: • Analyze how health and care are practiced at the boundaries of biomedical sciences. • Examine classification systems, technical objects, therapeutic practices, care relationships, self-experimental techniques, evidence production, and public communication strategies that either reinforce or challenge the narratives and normative stances framing health as an individualized moral responsibility and personal duty. • Explore knowledge legitimization strategies employed to frame health and care as do-able problems beyond biomedical expertise. • Provide methodological reflections on the importance of maintaining a non-normative, symmetrical perspective when studying health and care practices beyond the biomedical, while also considering the researcher’s positionality in the field. /* */ EASST's Eurograd mailing list -- eurograd-easst.net@lists.easst.net Archive: https://lists.easst.net/hyperkitty/list/eurograd-easst.net@lists.easst.net/ Edit your delivery settings there using Account dropdown, Mailman settings. 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