EGENIS seminar: "Hepatic logics and the fluid body: Caring for liver disease in the UK's NHS" Dr Rebecca Lynch (University of Exeter)
Egenis seminar series
Liver disease is typically understood as a problem of an organ, but a focus on everyday practices and concerns points us towards considering liver disease through a problem of fluids. Forefronting fluids allows another way into the disease, its relationality, and situatedness. Fluids are often neglected in the body, seen as 'of the body' rather than an intrinsic element.
| An Egenis, the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences seminar | |
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| Date | 28 April 2025 |
| Time | 15:30 to 17:00 |
| Place | Hybrid |
Event details
Attending to fluids shifts the usual hierarchy of biomedical framings, allowing what may be neglected to become more evident and raising consideration as to how (else) we might care (Puig de la Bellcasa, 2011). We are also moved away from understanding the body as static and bounded into working with movement, flow, and fluidity. These are, I suggest, more generative ways of situating liver disease in relation to its development, progression, and care, and to more recent developments in biomedical understandings and interventions around liver disease. Following what is for biomedicine a mundane focus on fluids, I explore these ideas drawing on my ethnographic fieldwork in specialist liver units within the UK’s national health service (NHS).
Venue: Byrne House
Virtual: via Zoom
Free to attend. Register here
