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Postdoc positions at the Interacting Minds Centre

Two vacant full-time positions as postdoc in the interdisciplinary, anthropological project: Borderlands of living. Tracing states of (un-)consciousness between the irreversible and the potential

The project: Borderlands of living
Half of the people experiencing out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), who are initially comatose, have uncertain prognosis. In this space of uncertainty, the project explores the high-stake collaboration and negotiation of researchers and clinicians working to break new ground in prognostics of unresponsive patients with uncertain consciousness, as they seek to distinguish between the irreversible vegetative state and the state of potential progression, minimally conscious, in people with anoxic brain injury after OHCA. 
To trace the uncertainties of prognostics, at the intersection of scientific and clinical reasoning, when looking for unambiguous signs of consciousness, this study carves out new trails in the conversations about the ethics of medical technologies and treatment, while critically examining the relationality of knowledge and methodological innovation. 

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Deadline is extended to January 30th.