[spsp-members] Call for Abstracts - Diagnosis: Between Knowing and Doing Conference

[sarah yvonnet]

*Call for Abstracts*

*Diagnosis: Between Knowing and Doing*



24th-25th of October 2024

Medical Museion and Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic
Research, University of Copenhagen



Despite being a critical part of the clinical practice, diagnosis has
received relatively little attention in the philosophy of medicine
literature, especially when it comes to diagnosis of somatic diseases.
Nonetheless, as a central concept and tool in both medical practice and
biomedical knowledge/research, diagnosis offers several exciting
epistemological and ethical questions.



In history of science, studies have often limited themselves to very
specific historical settings to avoid anachronism. Diagnoses are however
historical constructs that carry their history with them in their extension
and use. Drawing on historical perspectives yield fruitful avenues for
understanding how diagnoses come to be and are used.



In this conference we therefore wish to talk across philosophical,
historical and sociological approaches to diagnosis to investigate their
dynamism and how they create relations and allow us to understand and act
on disease. We will address the topic broadly touching on, among others,
the following questions:

   - What are the aims and functions of diagnoses and disease categories?
   - How are diagnoses embedded in temporality (medicalization,
   demedicalization, staging, continuity, and discontinuity in
   classifications)?
   - How are diagnoses shaped historically?
   - How are diagnoses used in clinical practice, clinical guidelines and
   clinical research, and which tensions between them are underlined by
   thinking in terms of diagnosis?
   - How to connect the apparent simplicity of the lab/clinical guidelines
   compared to clinical practice?
   - How are other form of expertise (such as patients for instance)
   involved in the process of diagnosis?
   - Are historical studies relevant for studying diagnosis in the present?



The conference will take place at Medical Museion and will focus on the
sharing of ideas and discussion in addition to presenting research. We hope
to include unusual formats for discussion (for instance working with
objects) so please write if you have further ideas for this.



We welcome proposals for short, 15min talks from scholars working on
historical, epistemological, social, or ethical aspects related to
diagnosis and disease classification (including the specific questions
mentioned above but contributions addressing other aspects are also
welcome). Please send a 250-words abstract to sarah.yvonnet at sund.ku.dk and
karin.tybjerg at sund.ku.dk. The deadline for sending abstracts is* 1st July
2024**. **We will return to you to you shortly; within the first week of
July.*



This conference is part of the project *Diagnosis**:* *Between Knowing and
Doing* and will also be an opportunity for us to present and review
outcomes of the project as well as well as discuss the future perspectives
in the field.
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