(Re)generating Dialogues between STS and Bioethics

Abstract

The purpose of this panel is to contribute to the ongoing, but sometimes interrupted, conversation between empirical research in the field of science and technology studies (STS) and the analytical and normative endeavors in the field of bioethics. Questions about justice, duty and responsibility might be thought of in a richer and more complex way when ethnographic narratives and other kinds of anthropological data are brought on into the discussion. As a result of these dialogues, issues and questions can be explored in ways that wouldn’t be possible without that interdisciplinary encounter. For example, discussion about methodological concerns in empirical bioethics might be encouraged by bringing some insights from the STS tradition.

Chair

• Gabriela Arguedas, Universidad de Costa Rica

Individual Presentations

• Doing Diagnosis in Child And Adolescent Mental Healthcare: A Content Analysis of Diagnostic Statements in a Psychiatric Case Register - Cliodhna O'Connor, University College Dublin

• A Leg Up? Neuroprosthetics, Elective Amputations, and Body Integrity Identity Disorder - Richard B Gibson, The University of Manchester

• Big Issues in a Wee Place: Access to Health Care on Edinburgh’s Leith Walk - Johanna Hemminger, Independent Researcher

• Ethical Issues in Biomedical Weight Stigma Reduction Efforts - Ekaterina Huybregts, Carleton University

Session Organizer

• Gabriela Arguedas, Universidad de Costa Rica