STS.330 History and Anthropology of Medicine and Biology, Fall 2006

Helmreich, Stefan, 1966-; Jones, David S. (David Shumway)

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Helmreich, Stefan, 1966-; Jones, David S. (David Shumway)

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History and Anthropology of Medicine and Biology

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Abstract

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

2006-12

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/52818

Department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society

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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

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