Sabrina Huber
Sabrina Huber tells her success story!
Sabrina's project FutureHealth under (Self) Surveillance is among the winners of the 2026 university competition and receives funding of €10,000.
Sabrina says the city of Wuppertal can look forward to four events and explains further:
How Do We Tell a Story About the Future of Medicine?
Future visions of medicine often depict a body surrounded by data streams and robotics. Surveillance promises security, prevention, and early diagnosis.
The TV series Charité, for example, depicts such a future. It is also set in 2049 and portrays a medical system in which body data, AI, and medical decisions are closely intertwined, with all its opportunities but also its drawbacks. Such images are not mere science fiction. They are narratives about how we envision health, control, and care.
This project builds on my research into surveillance narratives about bodies, health, and illness. Since my dissertation, I have been exploring how literature depicts worlds under conditions of increasing surveillance.
In light of current developments, four areas seem particularly relevant to me:
-Nursing under surveillance,
-AI-supported psychotherapy,
-Women's health, such as tracking female bodily data, and issues of equitable care in data-driven medicine.
The FutureHealthUnderSelfSurveillance project will design events in Wuppertal on these four topics, in which we will read, tell, discuss and question such imaginings from all sides together with citizens during the Science Year 2026.
Because the future of medicine isn't created solely in laboratories. It also emerges from the stories we use to imagine it, the stories we tell, hope for, or fear. Stories shape how we think about the future. And how we think about the future also determines how we shape it.
The university competition is launched by Wissenschaft im Dialog (WiD) as part of the Science Year 2026 - Doctors of the Future in cooperation with the Federal Association of University Communication e.V., the German Rectors' Conference, the Young Academy and this year also the Society of German Natural Scientists and Physicians (GDNÄ) and is funded by the Federal Ministry for Research, Technology and Space.
"I am very much looking forward to the encounters and discussions that will arise from this in and at the University of Wuppertal", said Sabrina Huber.
Congratulations and best wishes for continued success, Sabrina!
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