Mittwoch, 14. Dezember 2022, 17:30 - 18:30 iCal

STS Talk by Janina Kehr

The Hospital Multiple. Clinical Spaces Beyond the Practice of Medicine.

STS Seminar Room
Universitätsstraße 7/Stiege II/6. Stock (NIG), 1010 Wien

Vortrag

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Abstract

There is much more to hospitals than the practice of medicine. Hospitals have kitchens, laundries, and cafeterias. Hospitals are buildings, situated in neighborhoods, where different communities meet. Hospitals have fences and security services, surveillance cameras and guidance schemes, parks, and parking spaces. Hospitals are equipped with waste-management systems and logistics departments with well-defined protocols for the entry and exit of people and things. Hospitals are dusty places and sterilized locations. They are warm and cold, labyrinthine and intimate. They have histories that haunt the present. In my talk, I will address hospitals as spaces and places that exceed the practice of medicine. By foregrounding the more-than-medical aspects that are folded into hospital spaces, I will be concerned with the economic, political, architectural, infrastructural, military, metabolic, and affective dimensions of hospitals, that are easily overlooked in ethnographic works when medical encounters are foregrounded.

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Veranstalter

Department of Science and Technology Studies

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Kontakt

Karin Neumann
Institut für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung
01427749601
sec.sts@univie.ac.at

Erstellt am Montag, 28. November 2022, 12:38
Letzte Änderung am Montag, 28. November 2022, 13:35