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SUMMARY:MAS Symposium «The Datafication of Health: Novel distributions and reconfigurations of expertise»
DESCRIPTION:In recent years, health-related data and processes of dataficat
 ion have received extensive academic attention. Scholarly discussions have 
 highlighted either potential promises of datafication, such as predicting a
 nd mitigating salient challenges of col- lective and individual health, or 
 perils, such as surveilling more and more aspects of our intimate lives.\n\
 nBringing together contributions from various disciplines, this symposium e
 xplores the intersection of datafication and expertise in the health sector
 . When human life and health are increasingly transformed into data, and di
 fferent kinds of values are generated from these data, in what ways do thes
 e processes restructure knowledge relationships and affect power dynamics i
 n medicine, science, and society more broadly? Comprising detailed empirica
 l research in science and technology studies, anthropology, and history thi
 s symposium explores how the datafication of health possibly redefines expe
 rtise in health research, healthcare, clinical encounters as well as in the
  daily lives of patients and their relatives. In what ways do processes of 
 datafication redistribute authority between various actors? What are the em
 erging modes of expertise related to the growing field of health-related di
 gital data? How are relations between different forms of expertise reworked
 , and what forms of care do they engender? The symposium also discusses in 
 what manner novel distributions and reconfigurations of expertise maintain 
 long-standing social divides or possibly create new inequalities. In what w
 ays do they build on, reinforce, or create inequalities in various relation
 al constellations and on different scales – e.g. between patients and physi
 cians, between medical professionals and scientists, between the public and
  the private sector, between the global north and the global south? Finally
 , the symposium investigates how these epistemic dimensions give raise to m
 oral complexities related to the datafication of health. For example, it as
 ks how questions of trust, responsibility and accountability are implicated
  in novel distributions and reconfigurations of expertise.\n\nSessions on: 
 ‘Infrastructural Works’, ‘Moral Complexities’, and ‘Epistemic Encounters’\n
 \nPlace: University of St. Gallen, Room 09-012, Library Building\n\nInforma
 tion and registration:  Registration is required to attend the event on sit
 e. A Zoom link will alsobe provided on demand. For online and in-person reg
 istration, please contact: christina.ihasz-riedener@unisg.ch\n\n\n\n
LOCATION:Universität St. Gallen
DTSTAMP:20221010T210712Z
DTSTART:20221110T080000Z
DTEND:20221111T133000Z
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