Conference Panel Presentation

1. PERSONALIZING MEDICINE:
DISCOURSES, PRACTICES,
ITINERARIES
(Panel 48)
EASA Medical Anthropology Network |2017 Biennial Conference Network
Meeting
5-7 July, Lisbon, Portugal

2. Context and purpose
Precision medicine seeks to prevent and treat
diseases according to the genetic variability of
individuals and the socio-environmental context
where they live. The purpose of this panel is to
reflect on some of the discourses, practices and
itineraries through which this goal is concretized
in everyday lives of individuals and populations.

3. Presentations
 Speaking Precision Medicine: Preliminary results
from the analysis of the discourses produced in a
conference on biotechnological applications in
biomedicine
José Carlos Pinto da Costa (CRIA/FCSH-NOVA)
 DNA nations. Personalized medicine and its
infrastructures of solidarity
Ine Van Hoyweghen (Life Sciences & Society Lab, KU
Leuven)
 Archiving healthy and illness: conceptualisation of
the body in a Portuguese biobank
Brígida Riso (Instituto Universitário de Lisboa – ISCTE-IUL;