The Medicine and Its Objects Workshop (MIO) is a forum for critically thinking about the plurality of medicine, as a problem space, in relation to the diverse social and material worlds in which it takes animate shape and form. It considers the “objects” of medicine and health sciences—whether the objects of inquiry guiding knowledge production, objects of intervention directing therapeutic processes, institutional objects that constitute medical domains, or material objects that mediate interactions at the interplay of theory and practice.
MIO offers an intellectual space for participants to think together about what constitutes the “objects” of medicine, how these objects are mobilized in and through communities, bodies, policies, practices, and institutions, and the philosophical, theoretical, and grounded experiences of medicine and its objects as situated in embodied, socio-historical, and economic contexts.
As an interdisciplinary workshop, MIO draws together perspectives from various social scientific, biomedical, and humanistic disciplines with interests that coalesce around the social studies of medicine and allied health sciences. We welcome a variety of formats to foster an interdisciplinary community and exchange and offer experience in a range of academic genres.
Wednesday, October 30th (4:30-6:00 PM), Cobb Hall 107
Deciphering Air in Workplaces
Yuting Dong, Assistant Professor of East Asian History and the College
Wednesday, November 6th (4:30-6:00 PM), Cobb Hall 107
Trikafta Incorporated: Politics, Technics and Activism in the Brazilian Drug Access Policy
Lucas Nishida, Graduate Student, Anthropology
Wednesday, November 13th (4:30-6:00 PM), Cobb Hall 107
Becoming Accidented
Elif İrem Az, Post-doctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Wednesday, November 20th (4:30-6:00 PM), Cobb Hall 107
Peer Health Educators and College Health Promotion
Gracie Wilson, Graduate Student, Comparative Human Development
Wednesday, December 4th (4:30-6:00), Cobb Hall 107
Carework in the San Francisco Queer Community
Graham Steffen, Graduate Student, Comparative Human Development
Coordinators: Andy Archer and Fulden Arisan
Faculty Sponsors: Eugene Raikhel (Comparative Human Development) & Zhiying Ma (Crown School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice)
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***For more information about the workshop, or if you need assistance in order to attend, please contact the coordinators Andy Archer (andyarcher@uchicago.edu) and Fulden Arisan (farisan@uchicago.edu).