STS.330 History and Anthropology of Medicine and Biology, Fall 2006
Author(s)
Helmreich, Stefan, 1966-; Jones, David S. (David Shumway)
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Alternative title
History and Anthropology of Medicine and Biology
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This course explores recent historical and anthropological approaches to the study of medicine and biology. Topics include histories of bodies and embodiment in medicine; institutional and social genealogies and futures for genes and genomes; the role of science and medicine in racial formation; epidemics and emergent diseases; new reproductive technologies and socialities; the laboratory and field lives of animals, plants, microbes, molecules, and environments.
Date issued
2006-12Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and SocietyOther identifiers
STS.330-Fall2006
local: STS.330
local: IMSCP-MD5-1cd09849d09dbd1e38b9d5d0107dcaf7
Keywords
historical medicine, medieval dissection, gender, visible human project, genealogies, genome, biological kinship, biology of race, race and disease, emerging diseases, human relationship with animals, reproductive technologies, therapeutics, bioprospecting, climate change, environmental technology