University of Twente Philosophy Lectures 2024-2025
19 June 2025, 15:45-17:30, RA 4231
(Reception to follow, hosted by Ideefiks, in LA 2507)
Bas de Boer
Assistant Professor for Philosophy of Technoscience
University of Twente
Title: Personalised Medicine and the Embodied Experience of Health
Abstract: Medical practitioners and policy makers alike argue for a shift from curative to preventative medicine. In this talk, I will outline a framework that helps understand how this shift shapes the embodied experience of health. This will be done by specifically focusing on the buzzword “personalised medicine”. I propose to understand personalised medicine as a socio-technical imaginary: a perceived desirable future that can be collectively worked towards by making use of the perceived potentialities of technoscience. The main goal of the talk is to show how a combination of Foucauldian and phenomenological approaches can help articulating how this imaginary becomes part of one’s embodied experience.
Bio: Bas de Boer, Assistant Professor at the University of Twente, currently researches how technologies shape the experience and understanding of health. He is the author of How Scientific Instruments Speak: Postphenomenology and Technological Mediations in Neuroscientific Practice (Lexington Books) and Healthy Embodiment: Philosophical Reflections on the Experience of Health (Routledge).
