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Tuesday
13
JUL

04:15 PM

Locating the Missing Person in Personalized Medicine and Psychiatrie

Prof. Dr. Laurence J. Kirmayer, McGill University (Canada), Division od Social and Transcultural Psychiatry

Personalized (or precision) medicine and psychiatry aim to tailor diagnostic assessment and interventions to more detailed characterization of individuals. At present this done mainly in sub-personal ways involving biological parameters derived from various forms of ‘omics’ (genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, etc.) Although personalized medicine explicitly includes “lifestyle” and “environmental” dimensions, current efforts to expand the framework to include personal or social dimensions are limited and generally involve lists of factors that are deemed relevant because they influence previously identified sub-personal biological processes or social-environmental determinants of health identified through epidemiological studies. Missing from this is the person as embodied locus of agency and subjectivity and all that entails (i.e., phenomenology, narrativity, historicity, ethical and esthetic value, etc.). What is lost with this truncation? How can it be restored? This presentation will argue that social science has a key role to play in articulating notions of personhood that can deeply inform, enliven and enrich clinical research, theory and practice.

Please note that this talk starts at 4:15 pm!

Streaming / Video URL

https://zoom.us/j/95230369627?pwd=dC9iQjF2NkUyTXJ2TGtvWmpxOFRMUT09

Homepage Event

https://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/ethno/mahassa/index.php?language=de&page=medicalAntWorkGroup

Organizer

Südasien-Institut

Homepage Organizer

https://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/

Registration E-Mail

vasiliki.kosmidis@sai.uni-heidelberg.de

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Locating the Missing Person in Personalized Medicine and Psychiatrie

Prof. Dr. Laurence J. Kirmayer, McGill University (Canada), Division od Social and Transcultural Psychiatry