Title: "The Social Life of DNA"
Alondra Nelson, Department of Sociology, Columbia University

HS Visiting Fellows Bruna Colombo dos Santos & ...

Title: "Ghost Fathers and Adultery by Doctor: The Medical and Legal Origins of Assisted Reproductive Technologies, 1920-1978"

Michael Knipper (Justus Liebig University and Harvard Medical School), “The Alma Ata Declaration of 1978 and the Human Right to Health: Towards an Historical Understanding of Primary Health Care”

John Gee (History), “Applied Anthropology and Cultural Preservation: U.S.–Mexico Connections”

Lucas Müller (HASTS Program, MIT), “Breaking the Toxic Mold: Aflatoxin and the Making of Cancer Research in the Postcolonial World, 1960–2015”

Diane Paul (University of Massachusetts Boston and Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology), “Truby King, Infant Welfare, and the Boundaries of Eugenics”

James T. Downs (Visiting Fellow in Medical Anthropology and The Weatherhead Initiative on Global History) “The Coefficient in Epidemiology: The International Cholera Epidemics and the American Civil War”

Frank Blibo (History of Science), “The ‘New’ Scientific Racism and the Misjudgment of Man: Rationalizing Human Difference in a (Post)-Genomic Age”

Nils Hansson (University of Cologne), “Enacting Excellency: Awarding Nobel Prizes (or Not) to Surgeons in the Twentieth Century”

Colleen Lanier-Christensen (History of Science), “Managing a ‘Moon Shot’ for Cancer: Contract Research at the National Cancer Institute”

Title: "Data, Madness, and Heredity in Germany, 1900-1920"