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.