GANT 6368 -

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The New School

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Anthropology of Technoscience Spring 2009. Three credits Priscilla Song This seminar explores questions of theory, method, and ethics in the anthropology of science and technology. How is biomedicine changing what it is to be human How can science be studied ethnographically How are the politics of difference linked to the production of scientific knowledge Through close reading of ethnographic texts and fieldwork both online and off, we investigate how scientific practice and technological innovation reorganize various aspects of human life on both global and local scales. Topics include the reproduction of racial categories in genomics, the cultures of cyberspace, the commodification of bodies in medical science, the relationship between global markets and local ecologies, and the ways in which various technoscientific projects reshape natural and political orders in diverse locales.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.newschool.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 229-5600

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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