Apr 26, 2022
Historicizing Trust in Medicine
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
- Max Planck Research Group (Biomedical Sciences)
- Maya Goldenberg (University of Guelph)
Commentator: Alfred Freeborn
Moderator: Lara Keuck
The End of Medical Expertise?
Have online threats and harassment of medical personnel throughout the COVID pandemic as well as public refusal to abide by public health measures signalled the death of medical expertise? While these concerning events are despairingly described as a war on science, the end of expertise, and “post-truth,” a social epistemology re-reading of events as changing parameters of trust in public health and health care institutions provides a more nuanced understanding of the problem and what to do about it.
Biography
Contact and Registration
This event takes place online. A number of places are available to the public—please email PUBLIC@MPIWG-BERLIN.MPG.DE by April 19, 2022 to register. For further information about the program, please contact Lara Keuck (lkeuck@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).
TRUSTING SCIENCE
This event is part of the MPIWG's Institute's Colloquium 2021–22 series "Trusting Science," which seeks to explore this topic from interdisciplinary, transnational, and longue durée perspectives. Learn more about the series here.