[PhilPhys] 7th Annual HAPSAT Conference: "The Regimen of Bodily Health: Nutrition and Natural Knowledge

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 *please distribute widely and apologies for cross-posting.* The Regimen of
Bodily Health: Nourishment and Natural Knowledge
HAPSAT 7th Annual Graduate 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, 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 (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.

To register and view the preliminary program and conference poster please
visit out website: http://www.hps.utoronto.ca/hapsat/conference2011.htm.
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