[SydPhil] SydPhil Digest, Vol 108, Issue 22

[Jessica Keath]

On 21 March 2013 14:01, <sydphil-request at arts.usyd.edu.au> wrote:

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>    1. Philosophy @ UNSW, Tuesday: Susan Hardy and Tony Corones
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> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 03:01:09 +0000
> Subject: [SydPhil] Philosophy @ UNSW, Tuesday: Susan Hardy and Tony Corones
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> *Date:               Tuesday 26 March*                          ****
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> *Time:              1 p.m.* ****
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> *Venue:           Morven Brown 310, University of NSW*
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> *                        *(map reference C20: (1.7MB)<http://www.facilities.unsw.edu.au/Maps/pdf/kensington.pdf>
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> Drs Anthony Corones and Susan Hardy (University of NSW)****
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> *The Good Speculum? The Question Concerning Medical Surveillance*
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> This paper examines the nature and scope of surveillance medicine through
> the lens of Martin Heidegger's questioning of technology, and Luce
> Irigaray's critique of "hysteroscopy" in *Speculum of the Other Woman*.
> More particularly, the colourful history of cervical screening in New
> Zealand isused as a case study of how attempts to control surveillance
> medicine reinforce and even extend its power to objectivise populations by
> ordering the at-risk. Surveillance medicine, we argue, engenders an
> ontologically queer form of "becoming unto risk" that renders the whole
> population as standing reserve for medical knowledge and productivity. In
> an odd inversion of feminist activism, advocacy for women's rights in New
> Zealand has yielded a salvatory medical historiography that brooks no
> opposition, and enforces faith in medical intervention. That outcome helps
> illuminate the special kind of "danger" that reclaimed and re-ordered
> screening practices represent. The apparent lack of credible opposition to
> the “good speculum” suggests that a conception of “saving” other than that
> provided by surveillance medicine is sorely required.****
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> *Tony Corones and Susan Hardy both lecture in the School of Humanities.
> The research they have done together examines the intersection between the
> fields of history, philosophy, and sociology of medicine.*****
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> *Coordinator:*
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> Dr Joanne Faulkner, j.faulkner at unsw.edu.au****
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> School of Humanities****
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>   Dr Joanne Faulkner
> ARC DECRA Research Fellow
> School of Humanities
> Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
> Room 338, Morven Brown Building
> University of New South Wales
> Kensington, NSW 2052
> Australia
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>  j.faulkner at unsw.edu.au
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> http://humanities.arts.unsw.edu.au/staff/joanne-faulkner-633.html
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>  http://unsw.academia.edu/JoanneFaulkner
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