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Workshop announcement: Obesity, eating disorders, and the media (Oxford, Nov 9)

Obesity, eating disorders, and the media: An interdisciplinary workshop

Wednesday 9 November 2011, 9.30am-5.30pm

St Anne’s College, University of Oxford

 

The rising global prevalence of obesity and eating disorders can be considered one of the top public health challenges of the 21st century. With the large volume of recent scientific research on these conditions, and the increasing number of …

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The brain, the person, and the social: a workshop report

This post was contributed by Svenja Matusall & Johannes Bruder.

Workshop Report “The brain, the person, and the social. Probing neuroscientific ideas and practices from STS & history of science perspectives”, Zurich, 23.-25.06.2011

Looking in any daily newspaper of the (Western) world, we will see shiny images of active brains, showing “red spots of greed”, the differences between Democrat and …

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CFP on Medical Tele-technology for AAA 2011

The following call for papers is being circulated by Vincent Duclos (U Montreal) and Victor Braitberg (U Arizona):

CFP for American Anthropological Association Meetings
Montreal, Quebec November 16-20 2011

Materializing Presence, Configuring Proximity:
Engagements with Medical Tele-Technology and Emergent Care Practices

Health care is being transformed by a proliferation of screens, interfaces and networks that constitute emerging infrastructures of care …

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CfP: Psychopharmaceutical subjectivity, industry, and historical contingencies

This call for papers is being circulated by Dominique Béhague and Junko Kitanaka

Call for papers
American Anthropological Association meetings
110th Annual Meeting
November 16-20, 2011
Montreal, QC, Canada

“Psychopharmaceutical subjectivity, industry, and historical contingencies”

Co-organizers:
Dominique Béhague, Senior Lecturer, Anthropology, Brunel University, UK
Junko Kitanaka, Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Keio University, Japan

This two-part …

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Call for abstracts: Ethics in the translation of neuroscience research to psychiatric and neurological care

This announcement is being circulated by Eric Racine (IRCM):

Call for abstracts – Brain Matters 2: Ethics in the translation of neuroscience research to psychiatric and neurological care

Dear colleagues,

We are delighted to announce that the call for abstract (talks, panels, posters) for Brain Matters 2, an international conference in neuroethics, is now open. The deadline for submission is …

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CFP: Neuro-Reality Check. Scrutinizing the ‘neuro-turn’ in the humanities and natural sciences

This call for papers was sent along by Suparna Choudhury (MPIWG):

Neuro-Reality Check
Scrutinizing the ‘neuro-turn’ in the humanities and natural sciences

Workshop at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. December, 1-3 2011
organized by Suparna Choudhury and Max Stadler

Today, few developments in the world of science and technology would seem to draw comparable degrees of …