17 May
2023
17 May
'23
10:33 a.m.
Dear all,
we cordially invite you to the upcoming talk of the APSE - lecture
series, delivered by Ariane Hanemaayer (Brandon University)
Title: Where it hurts: Making Pain Medicine
When/Where: 25.5., 15-17pm, HS 2H
If you are interested in joining us for dinner/drinks afterwards, write
me an email (sophie.juliane.veigl(a)univie.ac.at)! everyone welcome!
Abstract:
What makes pain problematic? The nature of pain is contested, and over
the 20th century, researchers from biomedical fields as diverse as
surgery, anesthesiology, physiology, and neurology have sought to
develop a unified theory to represent its causes and effects. In the
clinic, the status of pain is subjective. Over the last century, many
efforts have been made to raise awareness of the under-examined aspects
of pain and to objectify it through the standardization of its
measurement. There remains, however, a gap between the knowledge of and
intervention on pain that has troubled the evidence-based medicine
paradigm. In this presentation I explain the nature of this gap as a
result of particular discursive and institutional relations. In
particular, I focus on the rise of clinical pain measurement scales
alongside the professionalization of the subspecialty of pain medicine.
Drawing on material from a broader genealogical project on the
biomedical sciences of pain, I argue that the techniques of pain
management were developed in relation to a particular shift in the
notion of clinical judgment within the medical discourse. I will situate
this knowledge development within the broader societal and institutional
events that rendered pain problematic, focusing on the establishment of
the first pain clinic in the USA and the International Society for the
Study of Pain.
Kind regards,
Sophie Veigl on behalf of the APSE-Unit
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Dr. Sophie Juliane Veigl, BSc., BA., MSc., MA.
Institut für Philosophie, Universität Wien
E-Mail: sophie.juliane.veigl(a)univie.ac.at
my pronouns are she/her