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Gil Eyal Invited to Deliver Talk at the Nancy N. Dubler Medical Ethics Lecture Series
Recent comments by HHS secretary have rekindled a debate over the causes for the rise in the prevalence of autism, as well as the policy and ethical implications of the growing numbers of children and adults with autism diagnoses. In this talk, I will argue that the rise in prevalence is best understood not as an "epidemic," but as the result of a "looping" process that began long ago with the deinstitutionalization of mental retardation, is driven by the formidable influence of parental advocacy, and is co-extensive with the expansion of an institutional matrix composed of early intervention and special education programs. I will therefore argue that the ethical challenge represented by autism is not to reduce the numbers of diagnoses, but on the contrary, to address the limits of this institutional matrix, which tends to fail autistic individuals once they grow into adults.
Event Information:
NYU Langone Division of Medical Ethics
Friday, July 25th, 12 pm-1 pm ET
Webinar Passcode: 2468
Gil Eyal | New York University
Listening Tables As Part of A National Effort to Foster Dialogue on Campus
Listening Tables Project | New York Times
Anemona Hartocollis reports for the New York Times about the Trust Collaboratory’s Listening Tables as part of a growing effort across US colleges to foster civic dialogue on difficult and polarizing topics.
The Rise and Crisis of Expertise
Gil Eyal | Lecture Tour
Gil Eyal will give a series of lectures on "The Rise and Crisis of Expertise" and “Trust Mehods” in Germany and Switzerland in the summer of 2024:
University of Lucerne
| Keynote Lecture | June 5
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
| Lecture, Contrust Research Initiative | June 17
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne
| MPIfG Lecture | June 29
University of Bielefeld
| Niklas Luhmann University Lecture | June 26
Mistrust in Numbers: Regulatory Science, Trans-Science and the Crisis of Expertise
Gil Eyal | Virginia Tech
Gil Eyal is invited to give this year’s Mullins Lecture at Virginia Tech’s STS Forum on trans-science and the crisis of expertise.
Gil Eyal to Present at UNESCO’s MOST Forum
Gil Eyal | UNESCO Most Forum Paris
Gil Eyal is invited to speak at UNESCO’s MOST Forum “Global Trends and Inequality – Which Public Policies for Social Justice?” on the topic of trust in science, the crisis of expertise, and their effects on policy-making and policy buy-in.
Trust Methods: Accounting for Who, What, When, and How to Trust
Gil Eyal | New York University
Gil Eyal will speak about our emerging research into trust methods at the NYU Sociology Colloquium in March.
Ten Principles for Research on AI in Healthcare from the Perspective of a Sociology of Expertise
Gil Eyal | Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Network
Gil Eyal will speak about AI in healthcare at the "AI and Healthcare: Current Research and Future Directions” workshop, hosted by The Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Network at Warwick University Business School.
Building, Repairing, Using Trust: How CHWs contribute to Social Change
Cristian Capotescu | NYU Langone
Cristian Capotescu spoke about trust and impact measurements at the 2nd CHW Innovations Summit as part of a panel discussing what impact means and how it is defined, what facilitators and barriers to impact are, what the role of trust is, and how to think about communication and working conditions of CHWs.
Beware the Trolley Zealots
Gil Eyal | Faculti
Gil Eyal discuses Mary Douglas' theory of institutional styles of thinking to analyze the debate about how and when the Coronavirus crisis can be brought to an end.
New Photo Exhibit on Manhattanville Campus Shows the Experience of Community Health Workers During the Pandemic
Cristian Capotescu & Danielle Lee Tomson | Columbia Neighbors
On June 14, a new exhibit, TrustWorkers PhotoVoice Exhibit, will open at The Forum on Columbia's Manhattanville campus. It offers a look at the lives of an under-reported and essential group in the health care system: Community Health Workers (CHWs). The twist? The exhibit is created by CHWs from all over New York City, using their own stories and photos to illustrate their collective experience.
Gatekeeping & the Publishing Landscape for Scholarship on Race, Medicine & Science
Gil Eyal | Washington University St. Louis
Participants explored how publication trends and directions for race-focused work in areas of science and medical research have been shaped by public conversations, the makeup of editorial boards, and field-specific debates themselves, among other sources of influence and power structures.
Technology or Expert Opinions?
Gil Eyal | Sveriges Radio
Some believe that we are heading towards an increasingly technocratic society, a kind of expert rule. Others claim that experts and experts are being silenced by populists. Can both be right?
The CDC Has Become Enmeshed in Politics. But it’s Not Unique to the Trump Administration
Gil Eyal | The Washington Post
Assessing risk always involves trade-offs. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, considered a source of impartial public health expertise since its establishment in 1946, has become enmeshed in political battles…
The Coronavirus Pandemic: 6 Experts, 6 Perspectives
Gil Eyal | The New Yorker
Experts in the fields of medicine, anthropology, virology, science fiction, philosophy, and sociology offer their professional takes on the coronavirus.