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Dear all,
Please see below for details of this seminar. I would be grateful if you
could circulate this notice as widely as possible.
Many thanks,
Natalie
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Tuesday 5 February | Room 1204, Warmington Tower, 5.00-7.00pm
Tracing Animals: Following non-human
animals in making biomedicine
With Lynda Birke | University of Chester
Continuing the 'What is Medicine?' seminar series
<http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/csisp/source/events.html#tracinganimals>
What role do nonhuman animals play in the construction of medical
knowledge? Animal researchers typically claim that their use has been
essential to progress. But just how have animals fitted into the
development of biomedicine? And how has their history fed into the ethical
controversy around animal use? In this paper, I want to do two things:
first, to trace how nonhuman animals, and their body parts, have become
incorporated into laboratory processes and places. They have long been
designed to fit into scientific procedures - now increasingly so through
genetic design.
Animals and procedures are closely connected - animals in science are
disassembled and reassembled in various ways. Indeed, whatever else it
is, biomedical knowledge can be said to rest on a large pile of animal
bodies and body parts. So, secondly, I want also to ask the speculative
question - what might biomedicine have looked like if it hadn't relied so
heavily on a never-ending supply of animals?
Dr Lynda Birke is a biologist who has long worked in feminist science
studies. She has published extensively in this area, particularly on
feminist questions in biology. More recently, she has focused on the
human/animal relationship - including the use of animals in science. Her
most recent book (with Arnie Arluke and Mike Michael) is "The Sacrifice:
How Scientific Experiments Transform Animals and People" (2007: Purdue).
She is currently doing research on horses and their relationship with
people, in the Anthrozoology Unit, University of Chester.
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Natalie Warner
Research Administrator (Tues, Thurs, Fri a.m. only)
Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process (CSISP)
Department of Sociology
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross
London
SE14 6NW
Tel: +44 (0)20 7919 7731
Fax: +44 (0)20 7919 7713
Web: www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/csisp
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