STS.330J / 21A.830J History and Anthropology of Medicine and Biology, Spring 2009

STS.330J / 21A.830J History and Anthropology of Medicine and Biology, Spring 2009

This course explores recent historical and anthropological approaches to the study of life, in both medicine and biology. After grounding our conversation in accounts of natural history and medicine that predate the rise of biology as a discipline, we explore modes of theorizing historical and conte...

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Main Authors: Jones, David, Helmreich, Stefan
Language:en-US
Published: 2009
Subjects:
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
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/91483

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