Sorting out and navigating uncertainty in precision medicine - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences - Uncertainty has been highlighted as a paradoxical consequence of precision medicine (PM). In the life sciences and medicine, uncertainty is often...

🐣 Happy to announce another OA publication, co-written with Cornelius Borck (Lübeck) and published in HPLS:

*Sorting Out and Navigating Uncertainty in Precision Medicine*

doi.org/10.1007/s406...

#HPS #PhilMed #philsci

Happening today at 15:30 CET

Webinar "The Pragmatic Turn in the Health and Disease Debate", dedicated to the latest Issue of Mefisto edited by Stefano Canali & Claudio Davini.

Speakers: A. Fenoy, N. Paciscopi, W. Rogers, M. J. Walker, S. Wesloh

Zoom link: lnkd.in/dMvTqkwB

#philhead #philmed

Highlights from the Women in Philosophy lecture series: Elisabetta Lalumera on the definition of pain and conceptual engineering youtu.be/Q9lYgYQDQ4s... #philmed #philsky

Sebastian Rodriguez and I gave an inaugural talk for a new interdisciplinary network on mental health research in Cambridge. #philsci #philmed #philsky #mentalhealth

Menatti – METIS Laura Menatti: Salutogenesis and salutogenic environments – new philosophical perspectives to understand the relationship between health and environment

Many thanks to the #Metis Research Group at the @uneduniv.bsky.social and Cristian Saborido, in my opinion, the best philosopher of medicine in Spain, for the invitation! 🙏 blogs.uned.es/metis/14661-2/
#philscience #philmed

Medicine, healthcare and the environment: from the salutogenic approach towards the salutogenic environments Research in medicine is increasingly calling for greater attention to the importance of the environment and the effects of climate change. In this pap…

Happy to share this paper of mine! It took me a long time, but may it be a salutogenic beginning for everyone! #salutogenesis #health #environment #philsci #philmed

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The meaning of a measure: p as a general measure of psychopathology The variable “p” is characterized as a single dimension of risk for psychopathology. The aim of this paper is to critically assess debates over “p” in the scientific literature, and their larger ph...

Fantastic work by @plutynski.bsky.social i still have no idea what factor analysis is good for. #philsci #philpsy #philmed

Eventi Coordinatori: Martina Bacaro, Stefano Canali, Alessandra Civani, Alessandro Demichelis, Noemi Paciscopi, Juri Panicucci, Soraya Pelvio Eventi PhilHeaD 17 Dicembre 2025, h. 16:30: Salute, benessere …

Salute, benessere e qualità della vita: discussione con Elisabetta Lalumera

17 Dicembre 2025, h. 16:30

Link Zoom: tinyurl.com/4hjnvemm

philhead.org/eventi/

#philhead #philmed #philsky

I filosofi di PhilHeaD non lavorano da soli: parlano, discutono e progettano con medici e professionisti della salute

Seminari, convegni e percorsi di mentorato creano uno spazio dove teoria e pratica si incontrano

#WorldPhilosophyDay2025 #philmed #philhead #philsky

“When you treat a disease, you can win or lose. When you treat a person, you always win” (Patch Adams)

In questo #WorldPhilosophyDay2025 celebriamo la filosofia come strumento essenziale per mettere al centro ciò che conta davvero: le persone

#philmed #philhead #philsky

Salutogenesis, Adaptivity and the Continuum of Health Salutogenesis is a theory of health and disease that emphasises the promotion of beneficial measures besides the prevention of risk factors and counteracting pathogens. This paper reframes salutogenes...

New paper on #salutogenesis #adaptivity and #autonomy... that's how how I think about the health- environment coupling #philbio #philmed link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

PhilHeaD (@philhead.bsky.social) Il Network Italiano di Filosofia della Medicina (PhilHeaD) promuove la ricerca filosofica riguardo le scienze mediche e psichiatriche, favorendo il dialogo tra filosofi, medici e altri professionisti ...

Fantastic news! PhilHead is on Bluesky! Follow @philhead.bsky.social for all things philosophy of medicine #philsky #philpsy #philmed

#HistSci #PhilSci #PhilMed

Screenshot from zoom showing the title slide of the talk by Celso Neto, entitled "Race Reification and Population Descriptors in Human Genomics" as well as the speaker.

Screenshot from zoom showing a slide on recommended population descriptors for genomics studies and some of the participants.

Screenshot from zoom showing participants during the discussion.

A big thanks to @celsoneto.bsky.social who gave an inspiring talk on race reification in human genomics research yesterday! Thank you also to everyone who joined the talk and the great discussion afterwards!
#HPBio #PhilSci #PhilMed

You can still register for today's online ROTO lecture by Celso Neto! Looking forward to seeing many of you at 4pm (CET) on zoom! 🤗
Click here to register: rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#HPBio #PhilSci #PhilMed

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Next Monday, @celsoneto.bsky.social will speak in our lecture series on race reification and population descriptors in human genomics. Come around!
Register here: rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#PhilSci #PhilMed #race

Poster for the talk by Celso Neto (University of Exeter), entitled "Race Reification and Population Descriptors in Human Genomics". It will take place on Monday, 13 October 2025, at 4 pm (CET) via Zoom.

Next Monday, we start the new Lecture Series! We're very happy to welcome @celsoneto.bsky.social as our first speaker. 🤩 Celso will talk about race reification and population descriptors in human genomics.
Just register here to participate: rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#PhilSci #PhilMed

The Philosophy of Medicine online reading group is resuming this fall on October 8!

For more information/to suggest a book (your book?) for the group to read, join @: groups.google.com/g/philmed-rg/

#philsci #philmed #bioethics

Please share widely, especially if the group has been helpful to you.

#philsci #philsky #philmed

Great session on precision medicine with @simonlohse.bsky.social and great conference @ishpssb2025.bsky.social – so many notes and papers to go through, enough for the rest of the summer and more.

#HPS #philmed #philsci #STS

In order to explore these issues and related implications for precision medicine and healthcare, this symposium will bring together an international group of interdisciplinary scholars who will analyse these questions from historical, philosophical, and STS perspectives.

Still looking for a session for tomorrow morning at ##ishpssb2025? Join us for the organised double session “Deconstruction as a Signature of Precision Medicine?"
#HPS #philmed #philsci #STS

app.oxfordabstracts.com/events/73530...

Screenshot of the title page of the article "Citizen science ‚from the margins‘: epistemologies of ignorance in the Movement of Women with Endometriosis in Mexico" by Julieta Piña-Romero.

Join us Monday at 4pm (CET) for our last Reading Group session in this semester, discussing "Citizen science from the margins: Epistemologies of ignorance in the movement of women with endometriosis in Mexico" by Julieta Piña-Romero.
Just email jan.baedke[at]rub.de to participate!
#PhilMed #PhilSci

Still time to submit at abstract for Climate, Emotion and Mental Health! August 14-15 at Cambridge HPS 🎓 Deadline this Friday @cambridgephilos.bsky.social @camneuro.bsky.social l
#philsci #philsky #psychology #psychiatry #philmed #cogsci #climate

You can still register for today's talk in our ROTO Lecture Series! Just click the link and see you at 4pm (CET) on zoom! 🤗
rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#PhilMed #PhilSci #HPBio

Epistemic injustice in health care! Join this exciting talk!👇
#HPBio #PhilMed

Join us next Monday for our last lecture in this semester! Just register via the link: rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#PhilSci #PhilMed #HPBio

Poster for the talk by Havi Carel, entitled "Epistemic Injustice in Health Care: Vulnerabilisation, Institutional Opacity, and Pathophobia". It will take place on Monday, 30 June 2025 at 4 pm (CET) via Zoom.

We are very happy to welcome Havi Carel (University of Bristol) next Monday for the last talk in our ROTO Lecture Series. Havi will speak about #EpistemicInjustice in Health Care.
Just register via this link to participate 👉 rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#PhilSci #PhilMed

This week we are reading Hannah Allen's work on the (non)role of luck in cancer diagnosis:

philmed.pitt.edu/philmed/arti...

Phil of Medicine online reading group, Weds at 5pm and Thursday at 9am UK time

Join at: groups.google.com/g/philmed-rg/

#philsci #philmed #bioethics

Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) in Gesc... Mit der Berufung von Frau Prof. Dr. Lara Keuck im Herbst 2022 wurde eine neue Arbeitsgruppe für Geschichte und Wissenschaftstheorie der Medizin an d...

#Job #histmed #philmed an der Uni Bielefeld, AG Geschichte & Wissenschaftstheorie der Medizin (Lara Keuck): wiss. MA, ehestmöglich, 100% E13 TV-L, befristet.
Eine großartige AG (!), Schwerpunkt Wissen & Unsicherheit in der Medizin.
Deadline 10.07.2025
uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/431...

Screenshot from zoom showing the title slide of the talk by Aline Potiron, entitled "Microbiome foundations and faultlines through the lens of history and philosophy" and some of the participants.

Screenshot from zoom showing a slide on the history of microbiology as well as the speaker.

Screenshot from zoom showing participants during the discussion.

A big thanks to Aline Potiron who gave a great talk on microbiome research in our Lecture Series yesterday. Thank you also to everyone who joined the talk and helped create a lively and fruitful discussion! 🤗
#PhilSci #PhilMed #HPBio #HistSci