Inequality and Social Policy Seminar Series presentation by Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus, Harvard University.

A Special Talk on Biomedicalization by Antonio Maturo Associate Professor at the Sociology Department, Università di Bologna and Regular Visiting Professor at Brown University.

Abstract:

Conrad (2007) defined medicalization as the extension of medical frames in everyday life and in human conditions not viewed as pathological until that moment. According to him the (interrelated) engines of medicalization are:   economic forces,  proliferation of diagnosis, consumerism and the organization of care. According to Clarke et al. (2009), bio-medicalization is a more Read more about Antonio Maturo: Self tracking, digital-based narratives of mental health and the ‘endoptikon’. How quantification and gamification promotes biomedicalization

Economic Sociology Seminar presentation by Rodolphe Durand, HEC Paris.

Politics and Social Change Workshop/Transnational Studies Initiative Joint presentation by Fethi Keles & Brianna Castro, Harvard University.

Presenter: 

Fethi Keles, Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Social Protection, Transnational Studies Initiative, Harvard University.

Title: 

"Refuge's Resource Environments: A Research Outline"

Abstract:

Over the past several years, the United Read more about Fethi Keles: Refuge's Resource Environments: A Research Outline AND Brianna Castro: Whether to Weather: A Case Study of Drought Displacement in the Colombian Countryside