Part of the Science & Technology Studies C olloquium
The themes for this talk are drawn from Professor Sismondo’ s recent book\, Ghost-Managed Medicine\, about the regimes of know ledge and power in the modern medicine. Here’s a portion of the descriptio n of the book: “Most agents for drug companies aim to tell the truth\, but the truths they tell are drawn from streams of knowledge that have been fed \, channeled and maintained by the companies at every possible opportunity. Especially because those companies have concentrated influence and narrow interests\, consumers and others should be concerned about how epistemic po wer is distributed – or ‘political economies of knowledge’ – and not just a bout truth and falsity of medical knowledge.”
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About the Presenter
Sergio Sismondo is the author of Ghost-Managed Medicine: Big Ph arma’s Invisible Hands (Mattering Press\, 2018)\, An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies\, 2nd ed. (Wiley-Blackwell\, 2010)\, The Art of Science (with Boris Castel) (Broadview Press\, 2003)\, and Science without Myth: On Constructions\, Reality and Social Knowle dge (SUNY Press\, 1996). With Jeremy Greene\, he edited The Pharma ceutical Studies Reader (Wiley\, 2015). He is editor of Social Stu dies of Science\, one of the leading Science and Technology Studies jo urnals in the world.
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