As a research project, ISBC is now brought to completion. Its publications and outputs continue, and the website will remain active for a further two years.
Professor Marilyn Strathern,
Principal Investigator
critical approaches to new knowledge relations
International Science and Bioethics Collaborations in Asia Colloquium
The ISBC team are pleased to announce the success of the International Science and Bioethics Collabrations in Asia Colloquium, held on the 13th-14th July 2010 at Cambridge University.
The event was attended by researchers in the fields of STS, medical anthropology, sociology of health and illness, public health, development studies, bioethics, history of science and medicine. Members of the ISBC research teams presented an overview of their work and the key themes and issues to have emerged from it. These presentations were followed by a series of complementary papers delivered by Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Insoo Hyun, Priscilla Song, Jennifer Liu, and Roger Jeffery.
Click here to download the Colloquium Programme
Abstract:
When discourses of development and economic growth are reframed by those of collaboration, what kinds of socio-economic demands emerge and how are these formulated in the management of science across cultures?
International collaborations in the global biomedical economy increasingly engage the efforts of scientists and medical professionals in many countries. But the roles of science, technology and bioethics in the creation and transfer of new knowledge and wealth has been typically framed by first-world policy makers. These roles have usually been cast in terms of economic, medical and scientific development. Focusing on Asia, the research projects that are the focus of this colloquium take up the practical and conceptual implications of research collaborations between the global north and south as well as within the global south. More specifically the conference will take up the themes of bioethical capacity building and biowealth in the contexts of international bioemedical research including clinical trials and stem cell research taking place across the Asian region. The conference will provide insight into the drivers of commercial and academic research institutions and how these operate in relation to the different forms of regulation put in place by state and non- governmental organisations.
ASA2010 : The Interview – theory, practice, society
Interviews are, for many of us, one of our key research tools, when access to observable situations is denied or made problematic. I have struggled very much with the Interview as an anthropological (?) tool, and think this is an important discussion to be having within the discipline.
It looks like several of the panels, including P01 “Talking with difficult subjects; ethics, knowledge, relationships” and P11 “Current concerns in contemporary critical medical medical ethnography : resisting a structural anaemia in respect to a new politics of evidence” would be of particular relevance to project members.
Is anyone planning on going?
Tags: ASA, Conference, ethics, evidence, interview, medical anthropology, method
