Re-ordering Care: Algorithmic Transformations of Medical Knowledge, Practice, and Governance

Datum
11. Juni – 13. Juni 2025 

Pan­el at 10th STS Italia

Pan­el “Re-order­ing Care: Algo­rith­mic Trans­for­ma­tions of Med­ical Knowl­edge, Prac­tice, and Governance”
10th STS Italia – The Ital­ian Soci­ety for Social Stud­ies of Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy: ‘Techno­science for Good: Design­ing, Car­ing, and Reconfiguring’
Milan, 11–13 June, 2025 

We invite con­tri­bu­tions that explore shifts and trans­for­ma­tions of care prac­tices brought on by algo­rith­mic tech­nolo­gies. We wel­come pre­sen­ta­tions that explore algo­rith­mic deploy­ment in rela­tion (but not lim­it­ed) to the fol­low­ing themes: 

• epis­temic trans­for­ma­tions in med­ical knowl­edge and practices;
• eth­i­cal re-arrange­ments in care practices;
• re-orga­ni­za­tions of work and labor rela­tions in health­care contexts;
• re-orga­ni­za­tions of clin­i­cal spaces and temporalities;
• shifts and ten­sions with­in and across infor­ma­tion­al health infrastructures;
• trans­for­ma­tions of notions of risk and med­ical lia­bil­i­ty upon the employ­ment of algo­rith­mic sys­tems in clin­i­cal practice. 

Our pan­el aims to gath­er both empir­i­cal and the­o­ret­i­cal analy­ses of the employ­ment of algo­rith­mic sys­tems in the health ser­vice man­age­ment and diag­nos­tic deci­sion-mak­ing, includ­ing the sur­round­ing chal­lenges, nego­ti­a­tions, con­flicts, and frictions. 

Abstracts (max 500 words) can be sub­mit­ted to the con­fer­ence plat­form through the “Sub­mis­sions” page (pan­el 54). Please note that the dead­line for sub­mis­sions is Feb­ru­ary 3, 2025.