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Disease, Communication and the Ethics of (In)Visibility
| Location: | Missouri, United States |
| Seminar Date: | 2012-02-06 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2012-01-17 |
| Announcement ID: |
191453 |
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For centuries, diseases have generated debates in which their media, economic and political visibility has been vital. This interdisciplinary workshop is dedicated to the exploration of aesthetic technologies and ideological decisions in the (mass) media production of knowledge about health and disease. The workshop takes up and advances these already existing debates to engage in a more direct discussion of the ethics of media visibility. As both diseases and media have “communication” at their core, we will discuss possible parallels between the vectors of communication of diseases and their media presence. With this focus, the workshop brings together two apparently divergent topics of the ethics of media visibility and the ethics of scholarly interpretation. How can diseases be made visible without recurring to the frequent strategy of stigmatization? What are the ethical problems entailed in the interpretation of materials that have gained cultural visibility and these that remain buried in archives? These questions will make it possible for us to explore the vistas of (in)visibility that characterize media production and (practical) scholarly preoccupation with health risks.
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Dr. Monika Pietrzak-Franger
Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow, Washington University in St. Louis
Department of Anthropology
McMillan Hall 206
Campus Box 114
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
Tel.: (314) 935 3621
Email: mfranger@artsci.wustl.edu
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