Twentieth-Century Biology Reading Group
The group will discuss papers relating to the history, philosophy and historiography of 20th-century biology. Articles will be placed well in advance in a box in the Whipple Library.
Meetings are every other Tuesday from 1–2pm in the Lodge Seminar Room.
Organised by Dmitriy Myelnikov and Salim Al-Gailani.
Lent Term 2012
| 24 January | Ilana Löwy, A Woman's Disease: The History of Cervical Cancer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011) |
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| 7 February | Ilana Löwy, Preventive Strikes: Women, Precancer, and Prophylactic Surgery (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010), chapters TBA |
| 21 February | Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, An Epistemology of the Concrete: Twentieth-Century Histories of Life (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2010), chapters TBA |
| 6 March | Michael Lynch, Simon A. Cole, Ruth McNally and Kathleen Jordan, Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting (University of Chicago Press: 2009), chapters TBA |