Travelling Knowledge (II): Health, Disease and Pharma

Session Submission Type: Open Panel

Abstract

Despite opposite forces recently observed, globalization still seems to be a driving force for much of current trends in science and technology. The increase of internationalization of scientific and technological practices, from faculty/student mobility to co-authorship of articles, is an indicator of a process that still needs further understanding. In this panel, we want to explore in depth how the circulation of knowledge by focusing on health issues, diseases and the pharmaceutical industry.

Sub Unit

• Papers for Open Panels / Travelling knowledge: theories, methods and empirical research made in circulation

Chair

• Sergio Sismondo, Queen's University

Individual Presentations

• Postcolonial Psychiatry and the Formation of Global Mental Health - David Robertson, Princeton University

• When Scientific Fields Emerge: Tracing the Production of the Epistemology of HIV/AIDS - alexandre White, Boston University; Marina Richard, Boston University

• Pharmaceutical Science in Action - Sergio Sismondo, Queen's University

Session Organizer

• Leandro Rodriguez Medina, Universidad de las Americas Puebla