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WEEK #	TOPICS	READINGS
1	Introduction
2	The Expressiveness of the Body, Living and Dead	Kuriyama, Shigehisa. The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine. New York, NY: Zone Books, 1999. ISBN: 9780942299892. Park, Katherine. "The Life of the Corpse: Division and Dissection in Late Medieval Europe." Journal of the History of Medicine 40 (1995): 111-132. Waldby, Catherine. "Virtual Anatomy: From the Body in the Text to the Body on the Screen." Journal of Medical Humanities 21 (2000): 85-107.
3	Body Parts and Body Worlds	Lock, Margaret. Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780520226050. Garber, Marjorie. "Spare Parts: The Surgical Construction of Gender." In Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety. New York, NY: Routledge, 1992, pp. 93-118. ISBN: 9780415919517. Waldby, Catherine. "Iatrogenesis: The Visible Human Project and the Reproduction of Life." Australian Feminist Studies 14 (1999): 77-90. Field Trip: Gunther von Hagens' "Body Worlds 2: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies." Boston Museum of Science. Dijck, Jose van. "Bodyworlds: The Art of Plastinated Cadavers." Configurations 9 (2001): 99-126. Walter, Tony. "Plastination for Display: A New Way to Dispose of the Dead." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 10 (2004): 603-627. Also of Interest Barboza, David. "China Turns Out Mummified Bodies for Displays." New York Times, August 8, 2006. Ulaby, Neda. "Cadaver Exhibits Are Part Science, Part Sideshow," and "Origins of Exhibited Cadavers Questioned." National Public Radio, August 10 and 11, 2006.
4	Genealogies and Futures for Genes and Genomes	Kay, Lily. "In the Beginning Was the Word?: The Genetic Code and the Book of Life." In The Science Studies Reader. Edited by Mario Biagioli. New York, NY: Routledge, 1999, pp. 224-233. ISBN: 9780415918688. Keller, Evelyn Fox. The Century of the Gene. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000, pp. 1-10, 73-101, and 133-148. ISBN: 9780674008250. Fortun, Mike. Promising Genomics: Iceland, deCODE Genetics, and a World of Speculation. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, forthcoming. Sunder Rajan, Kaushik. "Subjects of Speculation: Emergent Life Sciences and Market Logics in the United States and India." American Anthropologist 107 (2005): 19-30.
5	A Century of Race	Davis, Angela. "Racism, Birth Control, and Reproductive Rights." In Women, Race, and Class. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1981, pp. 202-221. ISBN: 9780394713519. Haraway, Donna. "Universal Donors in a Vampire Culture, Or It's All in the Family: Biological Kinship Categories in the Twentieth-Century United States." In Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature. Edited by William Cronon. New York, NY: Norton, 1994, pp. 321-366. ISBN: 9780393038729. Duster, Troy. "Race and Reification in Science." Science 307 (February 18, 2005): 1050-1051. Shields, Alexandra E., Michael Fortun, Evelynn M. Hammonds, Patricia A. Jing, Caryn Lerman, Rayna Rapp, and Patrick F. Sullivan. "The Use of Race Variables in Genetic Studies of Complex Traits and the Goal of Reducing Health Disparities: A Transdisciplinary Perspective." American Psychologist 60 (January 2005): 77-103. Stepan, Nancy Leys. "Eugenics in Latin America: Its Origins and Institutional Ecology," and "Racial Poisons and the Politics of Heredity in Latin America in the 1920s." In The Hour of Eugenics: Race, Gender and Nation in Latin America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991, pp. 35-101. ISBN: 9780801425691. Skinner, David. "Racialized Futures: Biologism and the Changing Politics of Identity." Social Studies of Science 36 (June 2006): 459-488. Also of Interest Social Science Research Council. "Is Race 'Real'?" 2005.
6	Race and Disease	Jones, David S. Rationalizing Epidemics: Meanings and Uses of American Indian Mortality since 1600. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780674013056. Shah, Nayan. "Plague and Managing the Commercial City." In Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001, pp. 1-7 and 120-157. ISBN: 9780520226296. Wailoo, Keith. "Introduction," and "Sickled Cells, Black Identity, and the Limits of Liberalism." In Dying in the City of Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race in America. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2001, pp. 1-24 and 137-164. ISBN: 9780807825846.
7	Emergent Disease	Hacking, Ian. Mad Travelers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illness. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998, pp. 1-102. ISBN: 9780813918235. Greene, Jeremy A. "Releasing the Flood Waters: Diuril and the Reshaping of Hypertension." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 79 (2005): 749-794. King, Nicholas B. "The Scale Politics of Emerging Diseases." Osiris 19 (2004): 62-76. Davis, Mike. The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu. New York, NY: New Press, 2005. ISBN: 9781595580115. Klinenberg, Eric. "Denaturalizing Disaster: A Social Autopsy of the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave." Theory and Society 28 (April 1999): 239-295. Epstein, Paul. "Climate Change and Human Health." New England Journal of Medicine 353 (October 6, 2005): 1433-1436. Also of Interest Social Science Research Council. "Understanding Katrina: Perspectives from the Social Sciences." 2005. Particularly: Cutter, Susan L. "The Geography of Social Vulnerability: Race, Class, and Catastrophe." Gilman, Nils. "What Katrina Teaches about the Meaning of Racism." Jackson. "Un/natural Disasters: Here and There." Lakoff, Andrew. "From Disaster to Catastrophe: The Limits of Preparedness." Molotch, Harvey. "Death on the Roof: Race and Bureaucratic Failure." Smith, Neil. "There's No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster." Sze, Julie. "Toxic Soup Redux: Why Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice Matter after Katrina."
8	Laboratories	Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg. Toward a History of Epistemic Things: Synthesizing Proteins in the Test Tube. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997, pp. 1-73. ISBN: 9780804727860. Pickering, Andrew. "Decentering Sociology: Synthetic Dyes and Social Theory." Perspectives on Science 13 (2005): 352-405. Rader, Karen. Making Mice: Standardizing Animals for American Biomedical Research, 1900-1955. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780691016368. Dror, Otniel E. "The Affect of Experiment: The Turn to Emotions in Anglo-American Physiology, 1900-1949." Isis 90 (June 1999): 205-237.
9	Animals	Anderson, Virginia DeJohn. "King Philip's Herds: Indians, Colonists, and the Problem of Livestock in Early New England." William and Mary Quarterly 51 (October 1994): 601-624. Ritvo, Harriet. "Race, Breed, and Myths of Origin: Chillingham Cattle as Ancient Britons." Representations 39 (Summer 1992): 1-22. Haraway, Donna. "Teddy Bear Patriarchy: Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden." In Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Societies. New York, NY: Routledge, 1990, pp. 26-58. ISBN: 9780415902946. ———. The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness. Chicago, IL: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780971757585. Franklin, Sarah. "Kinship, Genes and Cloning: Life after Dolly." In Genetic Nature/Culture: Anthropology and Science Beyond the Two-Culture Divide. Edited by Alan H. Goodman, Deborah Heath, and M. Susan Lindee. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003, pp. 95-110. ISBN: 0585456348.
10	Reproductive Technology	Rabinow, Paul. "Artificiality and Enlightenment: From Sociobiology to Biosociality. " In Zone 6: Incorporations. Edited by Jonathan Crary and Sanford Kwinter. New York, NY: Bradbury Tamblyn and Boorne Ltd., distributed by MIT Press, 1992. pp. 234-252. ISBN: 9780942299298. Rapp, Rayna. "Constructing Amniocentesis: Maternal and Medical Discourses." In Situated Lives: Gender and Culture in Everyday Life. New York, NY: Routledge, 1997, pp. 128-141. ISBN: 9780415918060. Thompson, Charis. Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780262201568.
11	Therapeutics	Pressman, Jack C. Last Resort: Psychosurgery and the Limits of Medicine. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780521353717. Epstein, Steven. "Activism, Drug Regulation, and the Politics of Therapeutic Evaluation in the AIDS Era: A Case Study of ddC and the 'Surrogate Markers' Debate." Social Studies of Science 27 (1997): 691-726. Hedgecoe, Adam, and Paul Martin. "The Drugs Don't Work: Expectations and the Shaping of Pharmacogenetics." Social Studies of Science 33 (June 2003): 327-364.
12	Plants and Bioprospecting	Schiebinger, Londa. Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780674014879. Hayden, Cori. "From Market to Market: Bioprospecting's Idioms of Inclusion." American Ethnologist 30 (August 2003): 359-371. Jasanoff, Sheila. "Biotechnology and Empire: The Global Power of Seeds and Science." Osiris 21 (2006): 273-292.
13	Environments	Helmreich, Stefan. Alien Ocean: An Anthropology of Marine Biology and the Limits of Life. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, forthcoming. Cruikshank, Julie. "Glaciers and Climate Change: Perspectives from Oral Tradition." Arctic 54 (December 2001): 377-393. Wohlforth, Charles. The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2004. pp. 171-200. ISBN: 9780865477148. Krech, Shepard. "Reflections on Conservation, Sustainability, and Environmentalism in Indigenous North America." American Anthropologist 107 (2005): 78-86.
14	Class Conference: Paper Presentations

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