9.30-10.30, Last Thursday of each month
Seminar room 2, Wolfson College
Linton Road, Oxford, OX2 6UD
(Tea, coffee, and pastries provided)
This monthly reading group will address research about health from a science and technology studies (STS) perspective, with an interest in ways of understanding the development, use, and politics of health knowledge, technology, and policy in contemporary societies. We invite students and faculty alike from different disciplines (e.g., spanning the humanities and social sciences) to join for discussion of a reading each month.
If you would like to attend, please email samantha.vanderslott@ndm.ox.ac.uk or aishani.aatresh@sjc.ox.ac.uk
Organised by the Vaccines and Society Unit.
Suggested readings:
- Caroline Redhead & Melanie Smallman (2024) Governance, democracy and ethics in crisis-decision-making: The pandemic and beyond. Manchester University Press.
- Kaushik Sunder Rajan (2012) Lively Capital: Biotechnologies, Ethics and Governance in Global Markets. Duke University Press.
- Ben Hurlbut (2017) Experiments in Democracy: Human Embryo Research and the Politics of Bioethics. Columbia University Press.
- Laura Mamo (2023) Sexualizing cancer: HPV and the politics of cancer prevention. University of Chicago Press.
- Sheila Jasanoff (2011) Reframing Rights: Bioconstitutionalism in the Genetic Age. MIT Press.
- Stephen Hilgartner, Clark Miller, & Robert Hagendijk (2015) Science and Democracy: Making Knowledge and Making Power in the Biosciences and Beyond. Routledge.
- Steven Epstein (2008) Inclusion: The politics of difference in medical research. University of Chicago Press.