[PhilPhys] CONF: The Regimen of Bodily Health: Nourishment and Natural Knowledge

[HAPSAT Society]

*CALL FOR PAPERS
**“The Regimen of Bodily Health: Nourishment and Natural Knowledge”
**HAPSAT 7th Annual Conference*

“The body” as both a material object and metaphor, provides a rich source of
inspiration for both philosophical and historical studies of the production
and transmission of knowledge. Lawrence and Shapin’s influential anthology,
*Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge *(1998)
broke new ground in this area with discussions of bodies as tools for
philosophical inquiry, what it means for knowledge to be “embodied” in
physical artifacts, and how bodily self-presentation can generate
disembodied knowledge. The body also presents an arena for interplay of
ideas about proper management of health and diseases and the application of
scientific and medical expertise. Seventeenth century physicians, for
instance, recommended a mixture of medicine and dietetics for consumptive
patients; proper dietary regimes were often based on theoretical ideas about
nourishment and health. Moreover, the body and our ideas of the body have
been a political battleground: within the “culture of dissection” and public
executions; as displays of ecclesiastical value and status; as
technologically manipulable aspects of the self; as and as subjects of
experimental philosophy.

On *Friday March 18, 2011, *HAPSAT <http://www.hps.utoronto.ca/hapsat/>, the
Graduate Student Society at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of
Science and Technology at the University of Toronto, will host its seventh
annual conference, *The Regimen of Bodily Health: Nourishment and Natural
Knowledge.*

* *

This year’s distinguished keynote is *Steven Shapin *(Dept. Of History of
Science, Harvard University)*: “The Long History of Dietetics: Thinking
about Food, Expertise, and the Self.” *The keynote is jointly hosted by
HAPSAT and the IHPST Colloquium
Series<http://www.hps.utoronto.ca/info/events.htm#colloquium>
.

We invite graduate students and recent graduates working in fields such as
HPS, STS, history, sociology, philosophy, public health, anthropology,
gender studies, and law, to submit paper and panel proposals that critically
engage with this theme. For papers please email abstracts of up to 250 words
to *HAPSAT at gmail.com *by *December 1, 2010*. For panels, please email a
document with a 250 word abstract describing the panel as a whole in
addition to individual abstracts for each paper (also 250 words). Each
presenter will be given 20 minutes.

We welcome papers addressing, but not limited to, the following questions:

   - What is the relationship between embodied lives and disembodied
   knowledge?
   - How have health regimes influenced historical or philosophical ideas
   about the body?
   - Do philosophical ideas about the nature of the self, identity, and
   human agency affect society’s treatment of bodies?
   - To what extent have technologies of the body influenced science in
   practice (e.g. technologies of blood transfusion)?
   - How are food, bodies, and personal and institutional authority related
   within the modern medical establishment?
   - What is the relationship between personal appearance and epistemic
   authority?
   - How have ideas about the degenerate body (e.g. monsters, deformity,
   disease) been shaped by cultural or social beliefs?
   - How do different modes of food production and consumption affect the
   political relationships between bodies?
   - What sorts of new political relationships, and political philosophies,
   are likely to arise if technological advancement makes the transhumanist
   dream a reality?

We hope to be able to offer billeting and small travel subsides for graduate
students travelling to Toronto for the conference.

For more information, visit the conference
website<http://www.hps.utoronto.ca/hapsat/>(to be updated shortly).
The
pdf poster is also
available.<http://jaivirdi.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/hapsat-cop.pdf>
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