This course examines how bodies have been rendered by science, technology, and medicine in the twentieth and twenty- first centuries. Course modules are organized around enduring and emerging concepts in STS – labor, populations, difference, information, cyborgs, species, and ethics. Through assigned readings, we will explore the theoretical and methodological traditions (in the social sciences and humanities) that investigate the body, getting a rich sense of the field of STS. We will work to question, de-tangle, and discuss contemporary technoscientific issues regarding bodies – dementia, reproductive technologies, virtual worlds, health risks, research ethics, and pharmaceuticalization – and how STS analysis lend insight into their dynamics.
Ali Kenner, "PSCI 573: Technoscientific Bodies", contributed by Ali Kenner and Eliza Nobles, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 27 August 2018, accessed 26 April 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/psci-573-technoscientific-bodies
Critical Commentary
This course examines how bodies have been rendered by science, technology, and medicine in the twentieth and twenty- first centuries. Course modules are organized around enduring and emerging concepts in STS – labor, populations, difference, information, cyborgs, species, and ethics. Through assigned readings, we will explore the theoretical and methodological traditions (in the social sciences and humanities) that investigate the body, getting a rich sense of the field of STS. We will work to question, de-tangle, and discuss contemporary technoscientific issues regarding bodies – dementia, reproductive technologies, virtual worlds, health risks, research ethics, and pharmaceuticalization – and how STS analysis lend insight into their dynamics.