The Uses and Abuses of Quantification in Healthcare: interdisciplinary perspectives

Convened by the Limits of the Numerical research team at the University of Cambridge, this conference looks at the numbers and quantifying operations that guide the various forms of evaluation of medical interventions that take place at all levels of healthcare policy.  How have particular measures and models of evidence currently prevalent in healthcare developed?  What are the practical effects of the use of such measures and models, and what philosophical issues do they raise? This two-day conference brings together scholars working across history, literature, philosophy, political science, sociology and STS to engage these and related questions.

The conference will open and close with keynote addresses by Professors Havi Carel (University of Bristol) and Ted Porter (University of California Los Angeles). The full list of invited speakers also includes:

Chris Blunt (LSE)

Isabelle Bruno (Université Lille)

Owen Dempsey (University of Manchester)

Katharina Kieslich (KCL)

Eleanor MacKillop (University of Liverpool)

Polly Mitchell (UCL)

Tiago Moreira (Durham University)

Elena Nicod (LSE)

Victor Roy (University of Cambridge)

Elina Vessonen (University of Cambridge)

The event is free to attend but registration is necessary. The link to registration as well as to the full programme and to the abstracts can be found here: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26814