UW Simpson Center: Critical Medical Humanities 2005-06

Critical Medical Humanities 2005-2006

This research cluster engages scholarship emerging from perspectives that have pushed beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries in seeking to understand medicine in its many dimensions: as a socially authoritative form of knowledge about nature and the body; as a set of social practices; as a congeries of institutions; and as a site for the formation of subjectivities and for the exercise of governmentality. A faculty and graduate student reading group features visits from three outside speakers, once each quarter.

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Organized by Janelle Taylor (Anthropology), Kelly Fryer-Edwards (Medical History & Ethics), Sara Goering (Philosophy), Lorna Rhodes (Anthropology), Linda Nash (History) and Helene Starks (Medical History & Ethics)

Rethinking ‘Choice’ - Abortion and New Reproductive Technologies
	Adrienne Asch Edward and Robin Milstein Professor of Bioethics Wurzweiler School of Social Work Yeshiva University, New York April 6, 2006 7:00 pm, Communications 120
Cockroaches, Housing, and Race: A History of Asthma and Urban Ecology in America
	Gregg Mitman Medical History and Bioethics University of Wisconsin, Madison March 3, 2006 4:00 pm, Communications 120
White-washing Health Disparities: A Bioethical Dilemma from an African American Perspective
	Annette Dula Center on Bioethics and Health Law University of Pittsburgh November 14, 2005 7:00 pm, Communications 120

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For more information, visit the project website.

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