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Special edition: "Healthism & Self-Care: Reconfiguring Body & Life through Science & Technology"

IM Vol7 1-2 Eng thumbEä Journal's vol. 7 is now online with a special double issue on "Healthism & Self-Care: Reconfiguring Body & Life through Science & Technology", developed as a joint project between Eä Journal and researchers from CETCOPRA (Centre for Research on Technology, Knowledge and Practices), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Institut Mines Télécom and Université Paris Descartes (France). The edition counts with the support of Alliance Française in Buenos Aires and the Institut Français and the Ambassade de France in Argentina.

 

"Over the past decades technological innovations such as digital technologies, genomics, and bio-nanotechnology have been promoted as means of improving “health”, a term that was broadly defined by the World Health Organization in 1946 as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” Access to “molecules of life”, miniaturized diagnostic devices or health-related connected objects have greatly intensified and accelerated the pace of production, circulation and sharing of health data, thereby reconfiguring the traditional relationship between medicine and society.  

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New issue: Eä Journal, Vol. 6 Nº 1

IM Vol6 N1 Eng 300x200 The new issue of Eä - Journal of Medical Humanities & Social Studies of Science and Technology, Vol. 6 N° 1, is now online. Contributors to this issue: Ezequiel Benito, Georgina Granero, María Fernanda Sabio & Jaime Elías Bortz, Carlos Hugo Sierra Hernando, Gloria Álvarez Bernardo and Hugo Ferpozzi. Read more»

 

 

"The Ailing City" by Diego Armus (2011) available for free download in Spanish at Eä Journal

ciudad impura small200The book The Ailing City: Health, Tuberculosis, and Culture in Buenos Aires, 1870–1950 by Diego Armus is now available in Spanish for free download at Eä Journal's website.

The Ailing City... reconstructs a social history of tuberculosis in the City of Buenos Aires between 1870 and 1950, analyzing the way in which the disease went through public and private life, both through its metaphors and discourses and to implemented health policies. The work falls within the history of health and disease, the history of medicine, the history of public health and the socio-cultural history of disease. It takes the disease as an object of reflection, in its intricate connection with the origins and development of the modern city and the construction of the national state.

 

 

Read more: "The Ailing City" by Diego Armus (2011) available for free download in Spanish at Eä Journal

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