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Panel: Chronic Care Technologies In and out of the Clinic: Tensions, Transformations, and Transgressions

Datum
11. Juni – 13. Juni 2025 

2025 Nordic­STS Con­fer­ence in Stock­holm, Sweden


Pan­el on “Chron­ic Care Tech­nolo­gies In and out of the Clin­ic: Ten­sions, Trans­for­ma­tions, and Transgressions”.
Nordic­STS Con­fer­ence in Stock­holm, Sweden
11–13 June 2025
Dead­line: 1 March

Details: Pan­el explores how dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies are shap­ing the organ­i­sa­tion and expe­ri­ence of chron­ic care—sometimes in expect­ed ways, but often in ways that cre­ate new ten­sions, demands, and possibilities. 

From self-track­ing wear­ables and pre­dic­tive algo­rithms to elec­tron­ic health records and deci­sion sup­port tools, dig­i­tal infra­struc­tures are increas­ing­ly woven into chron­ic care. But what does this mean for patients, care­givers, and health­care pro­fes­sion­als? How do these tech­nolo­gies man­age, stan­dard­ise, or dis­rupt chronic­i­ty? And where do nego­ti­a­tion, resis­tance, and impro­vi­sa­tion emerge?

We’re look­ing for con­tri­bu­tions that engage with these ques­tions from STS, anthro­pol­o­gy, soci­ol­o­gy, and relat­ed fields—whether through empir­i­cal stud­ies, con­cep­tu­al reflec­tions, or method­olog­i­cal per­spec­tives. Top­ics might include:

– Tem­po­ral­i­ties of chron­ic care (e.g., man­ag­ing fluc­tu­at­ing symp­toms vs. stan­dard­ised dig­i­tal timelines)
– Datafi­ca­tion of chronic­i­ty (self-track­ing, patient-report­ed out­comes, med­ical records)
– Clin­i­cal deci­sion sup­port and its role in organ­is­ing chron­ic care
– The ten­sion between unpre­dictabil­i­ty and stan­dard­i­s­a­tion in chron­ic ill­ness care
– The main­te­nance work need­ed in to keep dig­i­tal care infra­struc­tures functioning
– Access, inclu­sion, and exclu­sion in dig­i­tal­ly medi­at­ed chron­ic care

The call for abstracts is now open, and we would love to see your work in this dis­cus­sion! Abstracts can be sub­mit­ted via https://www.nordicsts.se/call-for-abstracts/ , where you can also read the full pan­el description.