508 - Section on Body and Embodiment Paper Session. Embodiment, Science, and Technology

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

This panel, cosponsored by the Sections on Body and Embodiment and Science, Knowledge, and Technology, invites submissions that examine how science and technology are central to the everyday expression of embodied practices. How has scientific research shaped social understandings of embodied experiences? How have technologies (medical, communication, surveillance, “camouflaged”) been used to organize, facilitate, enhance, track, or prevent bodily practices? Overall, what does the study of science and technology bring to the study of bodies?

Sub Unit

• Section on Body and Embodiment / Embodiment, Science, and Technology

Session Organizer

• Katie Ann Hasson, University of Southern California

Presider

• Katherine Mason, Wheaton College

Individual Presentations

• Not Just Bones, Organs, and Science: Patient-centered Medicine and the Constitution of Patient Subjectivities - Kelly Underman, University of Illinois at Chicago

• The Collapse of Distance and the Ambiguity of Quantifying Selves - Margaret Willis

• The Technological Market as an Object of Embodied Attraction - Karin D. Knorr Cetina, University of Chicago

• The Intense World of Autistic Adults: A Digital Ethnography Through Virtual Embodiment - Eiko Ikegami, New School for Social Research, Graduate Faculty; Robert Proverb, The New School for Social Research

Discussant

• Laura M. Carpenter, Vanderbilt University