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dc.contributor.authorHelmreich, Stefan, 1966-en_US
dc.contributor.authorJones, David S. (David Shumway)en_US
dc.coverage.temporalFall 2006en_US
dc.date.issued2006-12
dc.identifierSTS.330-Fall2006
dc.identifierlocal: STS.330
dc.identifierlocal: IMSCP-MD5-1cd09849d09dbd1e38b9d5d0107dcaf7
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/52818
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en_US
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dc.subjecthistorical medicineen_US
dc.subjectmedieval dissectionen_US
dc.subjectgenderen_US
dc.subjectvisible human projecten_US
dc.subjectgenealogiesen_US
dc.subjectgenomeen_US
dc.subjectbiological kinshipen_US
dc.subjectbiology of raceen_US
dc.subjectrace and diseaseen_US
dc.subjectemerging diseasesen_US
dc.subjecthuman relationship with animalsen_US
dc.subjectreproductive technologiesen_US
dc.subjecttherapeuticsen_US
dc.subjectbioprospectingen_US
dc.subjectclimate changeen_US
dc.subjectenvironmental technologyen_US
dc.titleSTS.330 History and Anthropology of Medicine and Biology, Fall 2006en_US
dc.title.alternativeHistory and Anthropology of Medicine and Biologyen_US
dc.typeLearning Object
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society


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