Month: March 2022

SHEtalks: Paradoxes and Ambivalences in Risk Communication about the Pandemic and Climate Change

Events, SHE News

What are the lessons for sustainable healthcare education? Antoinette Mary Fage-Butler, Aarhus University, Denmark 28. April 2022 12:00–13:00   With the steady flow of risk messages about the pandemic and climate change, the 2020s have reminded us viscerally of our human frailty to novel viruses and the vulnerability of our planetary home to climate change. In many ways, the institutional/mainstream […]

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Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandemics

Publications

Scientific vs Narrative Rationality and Medical Knowledge Practices Eivind Engebretsen and Mona Baker Cambridge University Press, in press/2022 Click here to access a full copy of Chapter 1 plus excerpts from all other chapters.   This book interrogates the assumption that evidence means the same thing to different constituencies and in different contexts by outlining a more nuanced and socially […]

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SHE talks “What’s the problem with antimicrobial resistance? A linguist’s perspective”

Events

‘What’s the problem with antimicrobial resistance (AMR)? A linguist’s perspective’ by Gabriela Saldanha Thursday 17th March, 11am GMT @CentreShe   Gabriela Saldanha is a researcher in SHE, where she works on the development of the Oslo Medical Corpus and on the EquityAMR project. In this talk, Gabriela will discuss the results of a comparative study of global and local (Indian […]

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