SNMH-möte 2024, Linköpings universitet.
Welcome to CMHB and Linköping university for SNMHs network meeting 2024, May 20-21.
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Hope to see you all in Linköping!
SNMH-Möte, Göteborg: ”Science and Technology Studies (STS) as Resource for – and Challenge to – Medical Humanities. And Perhaps Vice Versa!”
Svenska nätverket för medicinsk humaniora Göteborg 19-20:
STS as Resource for – and Challenge to – Medical Humanities
I mötet mellan konst och forskning: Nya frågor, nya metoder – nya svar?
Vad händer när konstnärer och forskare samarbetar? Vilka nya frågor eller metoder kan uppstå? Hör konstnärer, forskare och experter samtala om frågan. Fri entré! Förbokad biljett behövs. Forskare och konstnärer ägnar sig inte sällan åt liknande teman, men på olika sätt och med olika utgångspunkter. Deras frågeställningar, metoder, och resultat är oftast radikalt olika, men kan också överlappa, korsbefrukta och krocka på konstruktiva sätt. Denna kväll tar sin utgångspunkt i erfarenheterna hos en forskare och en konstnär som närmat sig, och tagit sig an, det andra fältet.
Anmäl dig till symposiet här. Sista anmälningsdag är 29 november.
Detta öppna symposium är ett samarrangemang mellan Centrum för medicinsk humaniora, Uppsala Co-creation Community for Culture and Creativity och Uppsala Konstmuseum.
Presentationer och samtal äger rum på svenska.
Program
17:00 Dörrarna öppnas
Lättare förtäring och dryck serveras i Vasasalen.
17:30: Välkomsttal
Ylva Söderfeldt, föreståndare på Centrum för medicinsk humaniora hälsar välkomna.
17:40 Föredrag
Att använda sig själv för att utforska strukturer
Anna Odell, konstnär och artist in residence vid Centrum för medicinsk humaniora under hösten 2023. Hennes konstverk med arbetsnamnet Psyket har vernissage den 2 mars 2024 på Uppsala Konstmuseum
Konst-iga forskningsmetoder i art-överskridande etnografi
Andrea Petitt, forskare i kulturantropologi vid Southasia Institute of Advanced Studies (SIAS) i Kathmandu, Nepal, affilierad till Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale et Culturelle (LASC) vid Université de Liège, Belgien, samt affilierad till Centrum för genusvetenskap, Uppsala universitet.
Paus
19:00 Panelsamtal
Christian Skovbjerg Jensen, direktor för Museet for Samtidskunst, Danmark.
Amanda Selinder, konstnär
Anna Orrghen, Docent och universitetslektor i konstvetenskap.
20:00-21:30 Mingel
Mingel i Vasasalen och Museum Bar & Café.
Mat & Dryck
Vi bjuder på wraps och alkoholfri dryck under kvällen. I Museum Bar & Café finns mat, dryck och snacks att köpa.
Fotografering och filmning
Det kan förekomma fotografering och filmning under själva symposiet för spridning i arrangörernas egna kanaler och social media. Det kommer att finnas tydligt utmärkta zoner för dig som inte vill synas i bild.
Kontakt
Erika Sigvardsdotter, Koordinator Centrum för medicinsk humaniora, erika.sigvardsdotter@idehist.uu.se.
Anna Wallsten, Samverkansledare UU Samverkan, anna.wallsten@uu.se.
Bild: Anna Odell, fotograferad av Felix Odell och Andrea Petitt, fotograferad av RM Wilson
Medical Humanities – Future Interdisciplinarity
This workshop, arranged by the Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics (CMHB) and funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, seeks to bring together researchers with a shared interest in the medical humanities, clinical medicine and/or biomedical research. We see medical humanities as embracing several perspectives within the humanities and the social sciences. The aim of the workshop is to explore the epistemological underpinnings of interdisciplinary health research within medical humanities and across medical humanities and clinical medicine and/or biomedical research, addressing challenges and new directions that such interdisciplinary work faces.
Maja Bodin: "Att ångra föräldraskapet: En studie om hur föräldraskapsånger upplevs, uttrycks och bemöts i svensk kontext"
Forskningspresentation av Beijer-postdoc Maja Bodin. Seminariet är del av det Nationella seminarieserien i medicinsk humaniora och hålls online (zoom). Kontakta Erika Sigvardsdotter för att registrera dig.
Abstract kommer senare.
Mirko Pasquini: "Economies of Attention as an Analytics for Healthcare Change: The Case of Urgency and Overcrowding in an Italian Emergency Room"
Research presentation by Mirko Pasquini, Uppsala University. The seminar is part of the Medical Humanities National Seminar Series and takes place online (zoom). Contact Erika Sigvardsdotter to register.
Abstract:
From the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the level of patient saturation of Emergency Rooms (ERs) and Intensive Care Units (ICUs) and the lack of available beds was broadcast relentlessly, filling everyone with dread – not to say panic. Who is to be attended first? And how should such a decision be made? But, even though it made things worse, hospital overcrowding is not a new phenomenon that the pandemic brought.
Since after 2008, Italian Newspapers and television exposé frequently sound the alarm that one third of the Italian population goes to the ER at least once a year, and 70% of those patients are assigned either low priority or non-urgent care codes. Urgency in the ER is supposed to fit clinical criteria, and is designed to treat heart attacks, broken bones, or head traumas due to car accidents, not provide routine health care and social support.
During the past fifteen years, however, this definition of urgency has undergone massive renegotiation in Italy. The ER has become the go-to place to try to get painkillers for chronic gallstones or back pain; to obtain a routine medical examination because you have grown weary of waiting for your General Practitioner to get back to you with an appointment; to check-up on stitches, catheters and bandages after surgical interventions; to get help consulting specialists such as psychiatrists; to spend the night when nowhere else is available.
The ER has become a venue that people seek out in an attempt to cope with or at least mitigate conditions of existential, social and economic precarity. These forms of precarity are urgent too as they regard lonely elderly people, migrants – only partially under public healthcare coverage – and young people struggling with increasingly harsh mental health conditions.
In my ethnographic research, I explore the everyday life of an Italian ER as a place where urgency is at stake; caught up in and contested, by competing understandings. Here, mistrust is fueled against medical authorities, and violence often sparks in its venues. But the ER is also a creative social space where productive negotiations of more equitable ways to distribute care take place amid ER staff and suffering people struggling for social justice.
Rosie Duivenbode: "From Bedside to Court Bench: Medical Expertise and the Unwanted Consequences of Female Genital Cutting Legislation and Policies"
Research presentation by Rosie Duivenbode, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health and Centre for Medical Humanities, Uppsala University. The seminar is part of the Medical Humanities National Seminar Series and takes place online (zoom). Contact Erika Sigvardsdotter to register.
Abstract
Background. Medical experts play a central role in the enforcement and implementation of female genital cutting (FGC) legislation and safeguarding policies worldwide. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that legal and policy efforts designed to protect young women and girls have unexpected harmful consequences. Experts increasingly question whether existing policies are proportional and just. Medical experts involved in clinical surveillance and the provision of criminal evidence who share these concerns might find themselves caught between law and clinical practice, balancing various harms and goods that reach well beyond their disciplinary expertise. Objective. This study aims to provide a holistic assessment of the role of medical experts in the implementation and enforcement of FGC laws and policies. It will pay specific attention to how they balance their duties to the state and public interest with their other, at times conflicting, professional duties – such as equal and person-centered care.
Methods. The combination of a medical and legal ethnography will follow the healthcare professional in all her FGC-related roles, from bedside to court bench. The first part of the study will be conducted in clinical settings in the United Kingdom, a country with arguably one of the strictest FGC surveillances in the world. The second part, the legal component, will be international involving a select number of FGC legal trials over the past decade in various Western countries.
Implications. In addition to practical implications for FGC safeguarding policies and expert witness testimony in legal trials, this project will provide insight into the potential impact of (academic) activism on healthcare provision and the relationship between the state and independent medical professionals when the latter become, willingly or unwillingly, involved in legal prosecutions and the pursuit of political objectives.
Project supervisors
Birgitta Essén (International Materal and Reproductive Health, Uppsala University), Jameson Garland (Medical Law, Uppsala University), Sara Johnsdotter (Social Anthropology, Malmö University), and Richard Shweder (Human Development, University of Chicago).
Format
This presentation will also function as the post-registration seminar requirement for PhD students at the medical faculty of Uppsala University. As such, the format is as follows: a 20-minute presentation of the research plan by Rosie Duivenbode will be followed by 20 minutes of questions from the Claudia Merli (Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and the reviewer) and 5-10 minutes of questions from Karin Enskär (Professor of Paediatric Nursing and the examiner). After a short break, the rest of the seminar time is dedicated to questions from, and conversation with, the audience and supervisors.