This past April Harvard’s Program on Science, Technology and Society hosted a conference “reflecting on the past twenty years of STS graduate study, and looking ahead to the next twenty.” As the organizers explained in the meeting abstract:
“The meeting is in part a stock-taking. After two decades of increased
public funding for STS, what can we say about…
On March 29, 2011, Nikolas Rose gave a talk here at the University of Chicago entitled “Governing Conduct in the Age of the Brain.” The lecture, which was co-sponsored by the Clinical Ethnography Workshop, the Nicholson Center for British Studies, the Department of Political Science and the Medicine, Body, and Practice Workshop, is available for viewing in …
This post was contributed by Mark Robinson (Princeton University).
From New York Times Op-ed pieces to educational toys for toddlers, the culture of neuroscience has far exceeded the confines of the laboratory. Anthropologists and others have traced neuroscience’s entry into the everyday – the courtroom, the pharmacy, the boardroom and the clinic. Yet, a more subtle transformation around neuroscience has …
Ordinary Genomes: Science, Citizenship, and Genetic Identities?
by Karen-Sue Taussig?
Duke University Press, 2009
264 pp., $22.95 (paperback)
Reviewed by Abigail Baim-Lance (Fashion Institute of Technology/SUNY and Researcher, New York State Department of Health, AIDS Institute)
At its brightest moments, Karen-Sue Taussig’s Ordinary Genomes: Science, Citizenship, and Genetic Identities (2009) deftly challenges universalist assumptions about the genetic sciences. Taussig …
The following announcement has been circulated by Mette Bech Risør:
The 7th Conference in Nordic Anthropology of Health and Medicine will be held June 8-11, 2011 in Grenå, Denmark, under the auspices of the University of Copenhagen and University of Aarhus. The conference is organized by: Department of Anthropology and Ethnography, Aarhus University; Department of Anthropology, Copenhagen University
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Killer Commodities: Public Health and the Corporate Production of Harm
Merrill Singer and Hans A. Baer, Editors
AltaMira Press, 2008
439 pages
US $ 34.95 (Paperback)
Reviewed by Mark Hill, Wayne State University
In Killer Commodities, Merrill Singer, Hans Baer, and fourteen other social scientists examine how detrimental effects associated with consumer goods persist despite U.S. and …