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Course Info

  • Course Number / Code:
  • STS.330 (Fall 2006) 
  • Course Title:
  • History and Anthropology of Medicine and Biology 
  • Course Level:
  • Graduate 
  • Offered by :
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Massachusetts, United States  
  • Department:
  • Science, Technology, and Society 
  • Course Instructor(s):
  • Prof. Stefan Helmreich
    Prof. David Jones 
  • Course Introduction:
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  • STS.330 History and Anthropology of Medicine and Biology



    Fall 2006




    Course Highlights


    This course features an extensive reading list and a complete set of assignments.


    Course Description


    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.


    Technical Requirements


    Special software is required to use some of the files in this course: .mov.

     

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