Conférence – « Recognition » and « Self-Constitution » as Humanistic Key Categories in Medical Explanatory Models for Poverty, Illness and their Familial Transmission

Conference –  « Recognition » and « Self-Constitution » as Humanistic Key Categories in Medical Explanatory Models for Poverty, Illness and their Familial Transmission

 

March 21st/22nd 2011

Ulm University Venue:

Wissenschaftszentrum Schloss Reisensburg der Universität Ulm

Bürgermeister-Johann-Müller-Str. 1

D-89312 Günzburg / Donau

(Conference Fee: 100,-€, includes board and lodging)

Contact: Zentrum Medizin und Gesellschaft / Centre Medicine and Society Institut für Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der Medizin Universität Ulm

Frauensteige 6, 89075 Ulm Tel.: 0731 500-39901 E-Mail: zmg@uni-ulm.de URL: http://www.uni-ulm.de/zmg

In current debates on the familial transmission of so called precarious living conditions the perspective of the humanities has been underrepresented. During the last 30 years this discourse on poverty, unemployment or educational marginalization and their causes and consequences has been dominated by the social sciences and medicine. The concepts of ‘recognition’ and ‘self-constitution’ seem to be philosophical and historical key categories which may help to broaden the understanding of the semantic field comprising medicine, poverty, illness and their familial transmission. Such a perspective could open new ways of thinking in medicine and the social sciences. Hence, it is the aim of the Symposium to lay the foundation for a theory of recognition and self-constitution directed at offering new explanatory models for the transmission of precarious living conditions within the family. In an interdisciplinary endeavor these key categories and their meaning in the context of health and poverty will be discussed and analyzed combining perspectives from the History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine in connection with psychiatry and sociology.

Monday, March 21st 2011

« Recognition » and « Self-Constitution » as Humanistic Key Categories in Medical Explanatory Models for Poverty, Illness and their Familial Transmission – Sebastian Kessler, Heiner Fangerau (Universität Ulm)

Is Recognition Measurable? – Hans-Klaus Keul (Universität Ulm)

« Recognition » and « Self-Constitution » as Key Categories of the 20th Century Eugenics Movement – Heiner Fangerau (Universität Ulm)

Epigenetics and the Familial Transmission of Precarious Life Circumstances – Jörg Niewöhner (Humbold Universität Berlin)

Medical Explanatory Models: Characteristics and Dynamics of Medicalization – Peter Wehling, Wilhelm Viehoever (Universität Augsburg)

The Bio-psychosocial Model in Psychopathology- Franz Resch (Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg)

Self-Concepts and Self-Worth in Clinical Groups – Astrid Schütz (TU Chemnitz)

Autonomy and Heteronomy – Nicola Baumann (Universität Trier)

Project « Work&Health »: Health Coaching Improves the Situation of Long-Term Unemployed Persons – Heribert Limm (Ulm)

Tuesday, March 22nd 2011

One- Two- or Multiple Tier Medicine? Social Inequalities in the German Medical Health Care – Siegfried Geyer (Medizinische Hochschule Hannover)

Social Habitus and the Problem of Familial Transmission – Beate Krais (TU Darmstadt)

The Role of Perceived Safety in the Transmission of Poverty and Illness – Franz Porzsolt (Universität Ulm) U

nemployment and Health. Findings from a Saxon Cross-Sectional Study – Hendrik Berth (TU Dresden)

The conference language is German.

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