{"id":28272,"date":"2018-10-19T10:39:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T08:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autismeurope.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=28272"},"modified":"2018-10-19T10:39:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T08:39:19","slug":"lecture-what-do-autism-therapies-do-if-they-do-not-cure-autism-leuven-belgium","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.autismeurope.org\/fr\/event\/lecture-what-do-autism-therapies-do-if-they-do-not-cure-autism-leuven-belgium\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture: What Do Autism Therapies Do (if they do not Cure Autism)? – Leuven, Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"

Public lecture by\u00a0Gil Eyal<\/a>, Columbia University.\u00a0It is free and open to the public but registration is necessary (via\u00a0gert.meyers@kuleuven.be<\/span><\/a>). More details\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The lecture will take place from 17:30 to 19:00 PM\u00a0at the Kardinaal Mercierzaal of the Institute of Philosophy (Kardinaal Mercierplein 2, 3000 Leuven).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong>There are many different ways to think about or evaluate the therapies, interventions and treatments given to children with autism. In evaluation studies, they would be judged in terms of their effectiveness in reducing certain symptoms and\/or in terms of their costs. More critical research seeks to assess therapies in terms of how normalizing they are or tolerant of cognitive difference. In this talk, I will propose several other ways to think about the significance of these therapies, and understand them as constitutive features of the contemporary experience of autism. First, therapies may be analyzed as mechanisms for translating and aligning the interests (broadly construed) of the different parties involved in the therapeutic act \u2013 patients, parents, therapists, teachers, doctors, etc. \u2013 thereby creating stable networks of expertise. Second, they may be analyzed as grids of specification that target, differentiate and name certain specific aspects of behavior, communication and comportment, thereby giving shape to the specific way in which we understand and diagnose autism today. Finally, autism therapies may also be understood as engaging in \u201contological politics\u201d (Mol 2002) and elaborating an infrastructure supporting autistic personhood.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Bio:<\/strong>\u00a0Gil Eyal is Professor of Sociology at Columbia University in New York. He is also co-leading a recent initiative on \u201cPrecision Medicine & Society\u201d at Columbia, meant to bring together social scientists who are doing cutting-edge work on recent development in medicine, and put them in conversation with medical researchers and leaders of medical education involved in Precision Medicine projects. Among his recent books and articles are: (with\u00a0Brendan Hart, Emine Onculer, Neta Oren and Natasha Rossi), \u201cThe Autism Matrix: The Social Origins of the Autism Epidemic\u201d. (Polity 2010); \u201cFor A Sociology of Expertise\u201d (American Journal of Sociology<\/i>\u00a02013); (with Dan Navon) \u201cLooping Genomes:\u00a0Diagnostic Change and the Genetic Makeup of the Autism Population.\u201d (American Journal of Sociology<\/i>\u00a02016); and \u201cThe Physician-Patient Relationship in the Age of Precision Medicine.\u201d (forthcoming in\u00a0Genetics in Medicine<\/i>). He is currently preparing a book, tentatively titled \u201cThe Crisis of Expertise.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This lecture is made possible thanks to the financial support of the Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek van Vlaanderen (FWO) \u2013 WOG \u201cAutism Ethics Network\u201d. On 15-16\/11 a number of research network activities (only open to affiliated researchers) will be conducted.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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