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Call for Papers: Beyond Binaries: Gender, Sexuality, and Medicine Across Post-War Europe, 1945-1991

Dec 13, 2022

A workshop organised by the Centre for the Study of Health, Ethics and Society, University of Hamburg Friday 9 June and Saturday 10 June 2023, Warburg-Haus, Hamburg How can gender and sexuality – broadly conceived both methodologically and thematically – help to inform historical understanding of the role of medicine in post-war Europe? This conference … More Call for Papers: Beyond Binaries: Gender, Sexuality, and Medicine Across Post-War Europe, 1945-1991

Artistic Utopias: “Imagining Health”

Dec 8, 2022

Rarely has our society contemplated the aims of medicine and health so intensively as in the last two years during the Covid-19 pandemic. Medical science and particular themes around vaccines and vaccine research have been subjected to public observation and debate. Hardly a day went by during the last two years without public scrutiny of … More Artistic Utopias: “Imagining Health”

Publication: Autonomy and Social Responsibility: The Post-Pandemic Challenge

Sep 14, 2022

By Jonathan D. Moreno, Judit Sándor, Ulf Schmidt. Over the last 80 years, a series of critical events has led to reconsideration of the basic premises of medical ethics. One of these events was the recognition of horrific medical experiments performed by German medical scientists in World War II concentration camps, resulting in intensified emphasis on a consent … More Publication: Autonomy and Social Responsibility: The Post-Pandemic Challenge

Medical Utopias in Art: Imagining Health Exhibition at HFBK

Jul 29, 2022

How might medicine be artistically imagined? The COVID-19 pandemic has brought health to the forefront of our everyday lives, prompting reassessments of, and new imaginaries about, medicine’s future. Documenting these utopian ideals in art form brings them to life, shedding light on beneficial medical innovations that can positively impact the lives of individuals, but also … More Medical Utopias in Art: Imagining Health Exhibition at HFBK

Fellowships Available “Knowing Vaccines”

Sep 16, 2021

Vaccines and vaccination raise complex questions around polices, practices, and people. Protecting and promoting health through vaccination always also involves areas of tensions, contention and intense negotiation: interests of the elderly vs. young; individual life/health vs. notions of a “healthy” society; societal engagement with well-being vs. death and dying; vaccine production and use for individuals … More Fellowships Available “Knowing Vaccines”