<div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black">Dear colleagues,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black">Please consider submitting an abstract for our two-day conference on the new scenarios for health and medicine held in Trento (February 2026). </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black">Best wishes,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black">the organizing committee</span></p><p 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style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Call for Abstracts</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Joint Conference AIS - Sociology of Health and Medicine Section / STS Italia</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Important Dates</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 47.25pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Deadline for abstract submission: 30 November 2025</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 47.25pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Notification of outcomes: 15 December 2025</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 47.25pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Conference: 12-13 February 2026</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 47.25pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Venue: Trento, Italy</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">From Digitalisation to Artificial Intelligence: New Scenarios for Health and Medicine</span></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The increasing diffusion of technologies supporting diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, and administrative management in healthcare is accompanied by a complex set of socio-technical expectations, which foreshadow profound transformations in clinical practice and organisational models of services, with the promise of more integrated, efficient, and sustainable socio sanitary systems. Although expectations of transformation cyclically accompany every new "next big thing"; techno-scientifically presented as revolutionary for the world of care, those that have emerged in recent years appear qualitatively different, pervasively intertwined with social, economic, and political dynamics that amplify their potential impact. Expectations regarding the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to medicine, already present since the 1960s, now appear more concrete due to its increasing diffusion in multiple areas of social life.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The shared perception that current technological transformations are structural and not temporary can exert a drag effect, re igniting interest in innovations that previously remained marginal. Technologies such as blockchain for data management or robotics in surgical and rehabilitative fields, which had not previously achieved full integration, could thus find new application opportunities, contributing to further dynamics of change in the healthcare sector. The promises of change are embedded within a transforming framework. On the one hand, the adoption of AI tools moves in partial continuity with pre-existing healthcare digitalisation processes (e.g., telecare), whose adoption seems to have spread more rapidly as a consequence of the pandemic crisis. Compared to these changes, however, AI is not a simple extension of already known processes but introduces new logics and issues that require critical re-examination. On the other hand, the most recent technical innovations are called to confront a changed economic landscape (e.g., progressive reduction of public spending to support health services), ideological framework (e.g., health as an individual responsibility of patients), professional context (e.g., hyper- specialisation, liability, and professional profile enhancement), and increasingly complex policy environment (e.g., reforms of national health policies) that are the result of structural changes in society.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The conference, jointly organised by the Italian Sociological Association (AIS \u2013 Sociology of Health and Medicine Section) and the Italian Society for Science and Technology Studies (STS Italia), aims to foster dialogue between two scientific communities that, from complementary perspectives, contribute to the critical understanding of processes intertwining health, medicine, and technological innovation. While sharing numerous theoretical and methodological affinities, the sociology of health and medicine has traditionally focused on the social, cultural, and ethical dimensions of illness, care practices, and health policies, investigating themes such as inequalities, representations of health, and the role of healthcare professions and organisations. Science and Technology Studies, instead, have focused more on the analysis of co-production processes between science, technology, and society, exploring how technologies are designed, adopted, and regulated, and how they, in turn, shape social practices and institutional configurations. The complementarity between these two perspectives will enrich the collective understanding of how emerging technologies are transforming not only clinical practice but also experiences of illness and health, relationships between patients and professionals, and public policies. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">In line with a strongly interdisciplinary approach, the conference is open to contributions from sociology, ethics, law, health economics, computer science, medicine, and information engineering.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">We invite the submission of abstracts exploring a wide range of topics, including, but not limited to:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> Infrastructuring and governance of healthcare technologies</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> Health data management policies</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> Health policies and emerging technologies</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> Healthcare policies and regulation</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> Telemedicine, digitalisation, and new challenges</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> Doctor-patient relationship in the digital era</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> Ethics and AI in healthcare</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> Robotics in healthcare</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> Technological innovation and health inequalities</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> Public perceptions and social acceptance of emerging healthcare technologies</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> Processes of co-construction of health, illness, and technology</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Abstracts should be between 300 and 500 words in length and must be submitted by 30 November 2025 using the provided <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfhuJ67hDgAld23MSuWd8DN0yMvKQxwmU82w0ye1YNOyfVW5g/viewform?pli=1" target="_blank"><span style="color:black">form</span></a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Participation in the conference is open to auditors only and does not require registration fees. All expenses, including meals, are the responsibility of the participants.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Organising Committee</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Alberto Ardissone (University of Macerata), Flavia Atzori (Polytechnic University of Marche), </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Attila Bruni (University of Trento), </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Stefano Crabu (University of Padua), Marta Gibin (University of Bologna), Francesco Miele (University of Trieste), Veronica Moretti (University of Bologna), Enrico Maria Piras (Bruno Kessler Foundation), Barbara Sena (University of Bergamo)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">For any information, please contact Enrico Maria Piras at <a href="mailto:piras@fbk.eu" target="_blank"><span style="color:black">piras@fbk.eu</span></a>.</span></p></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://ehealth.fbk.eu/people/profile/piras" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:10pt" target="_blank">Enrico Maria Piras</a><span style="color:black;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10pt">, PhD<br></span><span style="color:black;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10pt">researcher@</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">Health & Wellbeing Center, </font></span><a href="http://www.fbk.eu/" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:10pt" target="_blank">Fondazione Bruno Kessler</a><br><span style="color:black;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10pt">Office: +39 0461 314126</span></p><p><font color="#000000" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:13.3333px">Associate Editor -Sociology Compass- Section "Health & Science"</span></font><br></p><div title="Page 1"><div style="background-color:rgb(172,174,192)"><div><div>
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