Special Interest Groups: STM Activities
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Science, Technology, and Medicine
Minutes
The STM interest group has met at the past two annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Those minutes are available here:
Invitation
to contribute to discussion of possible themes for STM sponsored panels
at AAA, SMA, and 4S
- This year the Science, Technology, and Medicine working group will be sponsoring panels at the annual meetings for the Society for Medical Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, and Society for the Social Studies of Science. In the past year the group sponsored 2 very successful panels at 4S and AAA on the theme of “Collaboration.” Each panel reflected on a different aspect of collaboration and facilitated an extended discussion between participants at these meetings. Given the enthusiasm expressed for this model at the STMP Meeting at the AAAs, we will once again adopt the model of choosing one theme linking all panels.
- We know that many of you were not able to participate in the working group meeting at the AAA, and would like to include you in brainstorming to arrive at a theme for the 2009 meetings. What issues/concepts/themes do you think our panels ought to address in 2009?
- Please e-mail your suggestions to Alex Choby at admchoby@aol.com.
- Below is a list of ideas
suggested by those who attended to meeting which could be subsumed as
“breakthrough and fore-closure.”
- active awaiting, temporality, and scales of time
- non-institutionalized spaces, different temporalities
- the challenge of continuity over time vis-à-vis global health
- small-scale technologies get lost in analyses of science, technology and medicine
- what kinds of interventions count as STM
- inclusion of different ways of knowing and different kinds of expertise
- ‘the temporality of hope’ as related to the unknown and what can and can’t be taken for granted ‘foreclosure’ ‘closure’ could imply both a closing off and a laying bare
- relations between market and the state; how do these facilitate, shape or impede some technologies/actions and promote others
- positioning of subjects/actors/institutions vis-à-vis large scale global health interventions
- imagining futures in contexts of danger and uncertainty beyond the question of more immediate ends
- the ends of industrial bio-genetics, for example, in relation to the imagined end implied in the endeavor
